Here and Now

It's easy to get lost in time --on reminiscing what has been and daydreaming on what can be. It's an escape. An express ticket to leave the difficulties of the present. To a lot of us, "time travel" is perhaps the very thing that helps us go on. Through this, we get by on the struggles we face one day at a time. And yet, there's that inherent danger to it -the part where we actually forget to live in the present. And of course, the facts remain --the past cannot be repeated, while the future is uncertain.

This is why in the medical field, a huge emphasis is placed in concentrating on the "Here and Now." Sure, a clear patient history allows us to understand the patient's condition and know how to attack it. And a prognosis becomes the ultimate goal to how we are going to develop a care plan -a cure. But these, just like in LIFE, are both useless if we disregard the things that must be done at present --right here and right now. We get lost too much in our thoughts --in our reminiscing and daydreaming --and we might just lose the opportunity to do what we can to make them achieve actuality. Too much assessing and planning without enough intervening, and in a matter of seconds, our patient might just drop dead right in front of us.

And so, we still think about the past, cherish the beautiful memories and learn from the events that have changed us. And we still look towards the future, as this is the only way we are motivated to move at all. But we learn to take things one day at a time. We do what we can right here and right now to LIVE. And although it's not always the easy thing --to live in the present, we realize that life isn't always about staying enclosed in our comfort zone. And so, we go out and get going. Close your eyes for too long, and you might just miss out. Get lost in time and you might just be wasting another second to breathe. We live life right here and right now, and maybe then, we won't need to close our eyes too much as we go on.

P.S. Three months tomorrow...