Here. Now. --A Paragraph a Day

As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are.
Otherwise you will miss most of your life.   ~the Buddha

Where am I right now?  What's around me?  How many of us can answer that question truthfully and fully for most of the moments we experience?  It's so easy to be so busy and so distracted that we become blind to all of the beauty and kindness that's always present in our lives, and to believe those other people in our lives who tell us that life is stressful and frustrating and difficult and unfair.  But if we can just be aware of our present moments, if we can just stop now and then and look around and listen and feel to make sure we're not missing something normally wonderful, then we can add something profoundly moving to our lives.  Right here and right now are the only moments of our lives that we have to actually live, and that's something that we really need to take advantage of if we're to make the most of these lives that we have.