This moment right now is all that you ever really possess in life. If you sit and sincerely contemplate this, you will realize that you are never guaranteed the next moment. Your mind is determined to consistently place your attention deep within the past or into the future. Both of these {living in the moments of the past or dreaming of the moments of the future} are illusions that destroy the reality of the present. Detach yourself from the faulty guidance of your mind and simply allow yourself to be in the radiance of the NOW. This is where living takes place; it does not exist anywhere but in the present.

~psychotherapist Richard Singer Jr.

 

 

The unpredictability of life is something that I can’t seem to shake out of my mind the past few days, and in fact, I am thankful for the sorrow that it has brought to my heart, for it has sharpened my appreciation for the simple things.   Everyone’s days are numbered differently, and while I have no idea how many more days I may have on this Earth, nor how many days I will have in my life, the one thing that I  do know and that I can control is how much life I have in my days.   There is power in the present of the present moment; we cannot recreate our past, nor can we control our future,  but what we can do is embrace the present.

I want my days to be cupcake days.  I want to have unnecessary sprinkles with a cherry on top, just because.    Cupcakes days are only possible if and when we learn to love the moment of  the present, and it is only when we value the present that we can actually start to learn to love the present moment for what it is — full of colorful sweetness.