The Mind Bind

The older we get, the more we have to remember. But that’s not always a good thing because the older we get the more we have we wish we could forget.

We exist between the highs and lows of the time already gone and the expectation and anticipation of the time that is yet to come.

The gap between the two extremes is today; this point in time; this moment in our lives. The problem is that we run the risk of missing today because of the distractions of what has been and what may be to come. It’s altogether too easy to become trapped by our past and fearful of our future.

If we spend too much energy looking at any place in time other than the place in which we now exist we face the prospect of wasting our potential and not living a full and satisfying life.

What was is what is now and will be forever more and no amount of effort will change that. The bad, sad and regrettable bits of our past do not have to be our present and do not have to be carried with us into our future.

Our thoughts may not always be controllable but they are not directionless and need not be harmful. What we do with what we think is within our power.