LIVIN' IN THE MOMENT

I just discovered this song a few moments ago. Lucky you.

Because I told my friend that I felt a blog coming on and it started something like this:

"Why is it that I end up feeling like shit (yes, I said it…)" - 

The rest of it is not really fit for human consumption. Let's just say I was butt hurt (a term I learned from my oldest daughter.) AND let's leave it at that.

My insides were starting to get roiled.... and then I heard this song and it brought the smile back to my face and reminded me that today and right now is really quite important.

 

*The blue is my comment

   "Living In The Moment"

Jason Mraz

If this life is one act
Why do we lay all these traps?
We put them right in our path
When we just wanna be free

I will not waste my days
Making up all kinds of ways
To worry about all the things
That will not happen to me

As I think of all of the moments, days and years I have spent in wasted worry, it makes me want to run back and try to grab them... but then that would defeat the purpose of this realization that I have. All of the "What if's" that never happened....

So I just let go of what I know I don't know
And I know I'll only do this by
Living in the moment
Living my life
Easy and breezy
With peace in my mind
With peace in my heart
Peace in my soul

So this song is saying that if I just let go of what I know I don't know (which is almost everything I vex about...) I will have peace of mind, heart and soul! If I know that's true, then why do I forget it so much?

Wherever I'm going, I'm already home
Living in the moment

I just love that when I live today and let tomorrow worry about itself, I don't have to always wonder where I'm going because I'm already there!

I'm letting myself off the hook for things I've done
I let my past go past

Easier said than done. I mean, I THINK I may be able to let myself off the hook, if so many others in my life would let me off the hook and let me live my life. But then, that's part of the point of this concept - don't worry about "them."

And now I'm having more fun

So much fun!

I'm letting go of the thoughts
That do not make me strong
And I believe this way can be the same for everyone

And if I fall asleep
I know you'll be the one who'll always remind me
To live in the moment
To live my life
Easy and breezy
With peace in my mind
With peace in my heart
Got peace in my soul
Wherever I'm going, I'm already home

I can't walk through life facing backwards
I have tried

I tried more than once to just make sure
And I was denied the future I'd been searching for
But I spun around and hurt no more

Amazing when you turn around and walk forward, how clearly your path shows up. You can't find what you're searching for when you are looking in the wrong direction!

By living in the moment
Living my life
Easy and breezy
With peace in my mind
With peace in my heart
Got peace in my soul
Wherever I'm going, I'm already home

I'm living in the moment
I'm living my life
Just taking it easy
With peace in my mind
Got peace in my heart
Got peace in my soul
Oh, wherever I'm going, I'm already home

I'm living in the moment
I'm living my life
Oh, easy and breezy
With peace in my mind

In May of last year I wrote about living in today but I must have lost sight of it...I must have needed a reminder, so this song came up on my Spotify list.

I am reminded of when my young son was asked what he was doing, he said, "Nothin' - just livin'!" Now HE knew how to LIVE IN THE MOMENT!

So, no need for the snarky blog. I have decided to live in each moment.