Lets live in the present moment

It's August 31 of 2010. Tomorrow it'll be September 1st. Crazy right? It seems like just yesterday I was counting down the seconds; ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one! Happy new years! That's what we all yelled. We watched on TV as the ball dropped in New York. So much happened this year, yet I feel like it's only just started. It'll be 2011 in a couple months, then 2012 and so on. There's so much that'll happen between now and then. I'll be graduated from high school in 2012, then off to be my own person. To have my own family, a job, a place to stay and so on.

People always seem to worry about the future. Even as a kid I was asked; "Coral, what do you want to be when you grow up?" I always came up with something new every time. I wanted to be everything! A vet, an astronaut, a scientist, a midwife or maybe even an acrobat in the circus. Now people ask me the same question and I never have an answer for them because I honestly don't know yet.

Everyone expects you to know exactly what you want to do to make a living. They expect you to know what college you want to go to, and why you want to go there. They want us to be able to provide for ourselves and our families when we have one of our own to take care of. There's so much responsibility that is put on our shoulders from a young age.

If you think about it, I'm only 16. I'm still trying to figure out who I am and people are wanting me to decide things for when I'm older. That's great and all to be prepared, but how am I supposed to know what I want to do for the rest of my life if I don't even know myself yet as a person?

My point in all this is people worry about the future too much. It's good to think ahead, but to have your mind totally wrapped around it isn't. No one seems to take the time to think of what's happening now. Take one minute to look at today, what can make you happy?

"Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are cause by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence" Stop thinking about the past and stop worrying about the future. Take the time to be thankful for what you have now.

"Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be."

Acknowledge and e

mbrace what you have. "Take chances, make mistakes and get messy!" That's what Miss Frizzle always said.

You only get to live once, so why should the time when you're young be spent worrying about what you're gonna do when you get older?

Sometimes, the best things in life are the things that haven't been planned yet, the things that just happen spontaneously.

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All the quotes but one are from Eckhart Tolle's book The Power Of Now

You can click here to look at more quotes from the book.

The one quote not from him is from Miss Frizzle. We all know her as the coolest teacher ever from The Magic School Bus :]