The Moment

I’d like to be more rooted in the moment but in such a way that I’m maximally prepared for whatever the future might hold.

If we’re not careful, we can ‘live for the moment’ in counter-productive ways, such as thru abusing alcohol or other drugs or thru trying to escape from ourselves via workaholism or other means. So, it seems that meditation can be a constructive way, as distinguished from the other ways, for us to be rooted in the reality of now (that is, there is no past or future, but rather the recollection and anticipation of the apparently ever-changing present.)

Expressions of love thru kindness toward human and nonhuman others maybe is what anchors me to the eternal moment of which I’m a tiny, though significant, part. If that’s the case, via becoming more kind to others— interpersonally and systemically, spontaneously and organized—I might improve my sense of connection to reality and reduce my sense of floating, abstractly, in my recollections of the past and (often fearful) thoughts about the future.