Yesterday is like a dream. Yesterday cannot be duplicated nor reconstructed. Yesterday is a thought, a memory, a distant today.
Today has been like no other. Cannot be duplicated. Cannot be reconstructed as today has been filled with intentional and non intentional moments. All the days of our lives till now has been constructed to to unfold today
Tomorrow is too early to tell what the day shall behold. As much as we would like to foresee how the day will unfold or what will come our way we must wait.
Life happens in the here and now and that is where the wealth of happiness is contained.. Living in the past keeps us bound to memories void of life in the present. Living for the future keeps us un-rooted to the present. Living in the present allows us to be emotionally aware, engaging, and live with meaning.
Just this past weekend my daughter was married. The morning of the wedding my thoughts of yesterday’s flooded my mind. Yesterday when she was born. Yesterday when she first walked. Yesterday when she was a gymnast. Yesterday when she was commissioned as an Army Officer. My thoughts shifted to the future which made me anxious because so many scenarios are possible.
The wedding day afternoon I beheld the beauty of my daughter standing in her wedding dress. Yesterday didn’t matter, the future was not important. All that mattered was the present moments of joy, tears, smiles, and celebration. There will be pictures of the event; yet, nothing can take the place of the feeling at that particular juncture of time.
Life is made of moments; moments are made for happiness. If we wait until happiness finds us we shall be waylaid by happenstance. Reality dictates that not all moments are happy filled; yet, more often than not happiness outweighs challenges of life.
This moment can not be duplicated nor reconstructed. This moment is to be cherished. All the days of our lives have brought us to this moment…
