Yesterday I met with an old friend, someone I hadn't seen in years. What a high it was to reconnect, catch up on each other's lives, discover that we have many current interests in common, make plans to visit again in the near future....
Such a "high" seems to heighten our sense of aliveness and to bring about a desire to hold onto that feeling. Somehow reality seems tinged with new colors whenever there is a touch of excitement in the air, when there is anticipation, when things are fun, when the moment seems to hold the promise for development. And it can make everything that occured beforehand seem ho-hum.
Yet what could possibly be ho-hum about living, about breathing, about being connected to this very moment, no matter who is there to share it, no matter what informs the environment, no matter what might happen in the future? Life is now; this moment is here; and the only Self I have is here, now. When I allow myself to experience my own deep presence right here in this moment -- with a friend, without a friend, happy, sad, in the midst of busy-ness or when there is stillness all around -- then I am truly alive. I am alive inside and throughout my being.
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