I choose THIS moment…

This is a mantra I’m practicing.

It arises whether it’s a scenic moment or a banal one.

It’s as true grabbing a glass of water in the kitchen as it is staring at the ocean next to people I love.

I choose this moment because this is the one I have.

It’s the only one I really have to root my presence into.

The ones I’ve already had are gone.

I choose to be maximally alive in this one moment rather than drift energetically back to old ones or drift impotently into imagined future ones.

I root my presence here and now whenever this mantra arises and I am grateful.

What about you?