This Moment Deserves Your Full Attention for It Will Not Pass Your Way Again
The time is here and the place is here. Stay in it.
What happens if you had to buy time to live?
Will Salas wakes up one morning to find that he has 23 hours to live unless he replenishes his clock. Except this is a scene in a movie called In Time.
Replenish your life with quality experiences
Many people die at 25, and aren’t buried until they are 75 is a quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin.
The reality of our lives is that we wake up every morning, but we hardly experience the moments as we are either held in a prison called yesterday, or worried about another called the future.
Life doesn’t have to be that way if we choose to soak ourselves in our daily unfolding.
You can decide to live fully each day of your allotted time. And if you can achieve this, you will have achieved everything else.
Transact your life with the number, and quality of experiences
Your wildly important goal every day can be to replenish your life with present moments.
If investment in time pays interest, then investment in your present moments pays 100X interest.
How do you replace mediocre moments with present moments living?
Imagine you run a business like Amazon that buys, and sells things online. And your goal is to sell a product called experienced present moments ( EPM)
Your EPM is checked for touch, feel taste, see, hear, and smell input.
The seller’s only requirement is to demonstrate and to live the practice daily.
I forgot to tell you that as the seller you get exponential, and lifetime returns. And, you also have a lifetime buyer- yourself.
You have what it takes to be in the business of living.
Challenge yourself to have many such moments, and watch your life transform.
How does the present moment living look like?
Sean is a photographer. He is in the Himalayas and has been tracking a leopard for days. He is with Walter, and they are about to have their life experience.
They call the snow leopard the ‘ghost cat’,” Sean whispers to Walter as they hide from view behind a rock.
“Never lets itself be seen—beautiful things don’t ask for attention,” he adds.
“When are you going to take it?” Walter asks sounding impatient.
“Sometimes, I don’t,” Sean explains. “If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don’t like to have the distraction of the camera. I just want to stay in it.”
“Stay in it?” Walter asks, confused.
“Yeah. Right there. Right here.”
When the leopard finally appears, Sean doesn’t take the shot. He takes time to admire, marvel, cherish, revere, and appreciate the beautiful thing as he says that doesn’t ask for attention.
Your life is that beautiful thing that doesn’t ask for attention. Be there.
Stay with your experiences. Feel them. Touch them. See them. Smell them. Taste them, and savor them.
Empty the distractions that block your way to getting the lifetime opportunity of living fully.
Stay in it.
This way you can enjoy life, and not die at 25.
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