The Moment

What is in a moment?

Is it the present alone or various products of the past or some continuous preparation for the future? If it is all three, then a moment is a very complicated event that we may comprehend by only considering one of its dimensions.

Distraction can be an enemy. Focusing on the next five or ten minutes can be a life preserver. You are not thinking about the next hour or the rest of the day. You are forcing yourself into the moment. What will happen now? What will I do now? Where should all of my attention go now? At times of personal challenge, I've found that focusing on the next minute is a way of controlling the stress that might be overwhelming if the moment became too large and I considered too much.

We lose so many of our "nows" by fretting about the past or the future. We also lose the beauty of the small and the immediate.