NOW is the most important time....

Every once in a while I realize that I am making a big deal of something That really isn't important. I remember a book titled "Who moved my cheese?". Although I never read that book but my interpretation would be that someone is worrying about something that should not make much difference to the overall picture. Probably the cheese wasn't moved at all and it's just us thinking someone moved it, and to make it even worse, we start worrying about who moved it, what were they thinking, and now life's not worth living.

If you really want to analyze and understand something, you need to detach from it and take a 1000 feet (or maybe a 1000 miles) view, meaning you look from a much broader perspective instead of focusing on only a part of it.

Let's use this approach to our lives. A very very simple view from a thousand miles above would be that LIFE starts when we are born and ends when we die. This overly simplistic definition applies not only to us but also to those who have come before us and to those who will follow. The shortest life span can be death at birth, and the longest, though not definite, very close to 100 years (give or take a few years). Majority, though, perish somewhere in between the two extremes. Although, science and technology have increased the general life span but the fact remains that everybody is born and dies or will die at some point, giving it clearly delineated start and end points.

Do we really want to spend whatever life span we have worrying about who moved our cheese? who cut us off on the road? who said something that we didn't like? what someone is or is not doing? what someone is wearing, eating, driving? or do we want to spend it enjoying the small moments that swoosh past us while we are trying to figure out the exact location of the cheese? The small moments are right where we are, who we are with, what we are doing, how we are dealing with others, the PRESENT. This the most important point in time one can have.

We  have no control over what has already happened or what will happen next, but we can definitely make the best use of our "present". This will help us make the future better as well as our past something to cherish about. The most important person is the one you are with right now, leave them with pleasant memories and make them feel important and special. For when you are gone they will remember you as someone special they met and would want to meet again. You have the power to make this world a good place to live in one person at a time, and it doesn't take much effort. Just be nice.

The most important thing you do is what you are doing right now, for this will represent your past and also be the foundation of your future. So stop worrying about the coordinates of your cheese and share it with people around you and do something that will make your past memorable and future something to look forward to.