Only this moment is reality for us..

Only this moment is reality for us..

The past moment is a memory, which we may recall this moment..

The coming moment is only a hope, an expectation..

We may not be able even to control this moment..

This moment may bring us happiness, sorrow, pleasure, pain , and a mixture of all of them too.

But if we can live this moment as honestly as possible ,,

as realistically as possible

if we do not pollute this moment with prejudices developed over the past moments and unfounded anxieties for the future moments,

then alone we would have lived this moment in the right way..

And after all life is a sort of march of each moment, the past giving way to the present and the future following the present happily..

In a very long journey, it is always nice to take care that we do not carry unwanted luggage..

A quote from Horace comes to mind

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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

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“Happy the man, and happy he alone,

he who can call today his own:

he who, secure within, can say,

Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Be fair or foul, or rain or shine

the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.

Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,

but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”

― Horace