Present is Your Home

Keep your past & future in your life as working office and vacation resorts, but not as your home. The present is your home.

You earn money in your office, similarly you learn from your past. You leisurely spend your holidays at vacation resorts, similarly you dream better for your future. But you actually live in your home with your family, friends, your living, your hobbies, your fun, everything, your life, which no one forces you to do or which you need to do because of some compulsion. But what you do naturally, with the rhythm of life without thinking anything, just being relaxed, naturally. At the resort, you go with a need to relax, but at home you are always relaxed.

Now, think if you have to spend 18 hours in office and you are not coming home for weeks. Or, if you have gone for a year long vacation. Then these places will eat you up, you want to run to your home.

So, be at present, live in present.
Go to past to learn & come back.
Go to future to dream & come back.

Living in present does NOT mean being disconnected from past or future. Present is anyways connected to both past and future. We take learning from the past and vision for the future.

Living in present means don’t live in past and don’t live in future. Keep your memory of the useful part of the past, and steer your present in the direction of better future.
Positively, don’t keep re-living past memories, smiling all day at good memories, only telling life stories of childhood and youth. Negatively, regretting past decisions, or remembering trauma & tragedy of the past.
Positively, don’t keep living in your future dream or over-thinking, day-dreaming without action. Negatively, worrying about negative consequences of your decisions & actions in future.
Don’t underdo, don’t overdo, do appropriately, as much is required & essential only.

Taking action at present and relaxing in present is living in present.

Your past exists as a memory only.
Your future exists as a dream only.
When you don’t access your past, it doesn’t exist.
If you don’t access/create your future, it doesn’t exist.

Past is a Photograph.
Future is an Animation.
Present is the Painting, you are making right now.

Past is a memory,
Future is a dream,
Present is the reality.

Happiness is relative when you compare with past and future.
Happiness is absolute when you are just happy.

How to be in the present moment?
Keep your mind where your body is.

You are anyway connected to your past. Your past is only a memory. Your past doesn’t exist as a reality. But don’t let your past affect your present in any negative way. Let your past affect you in positive way only. That is in your control.
Keep your present in the direction of future. Don’t live like stray dogs and cats on road. Don’t be nomad or vagabond. Build it in one direction and keep focus on that. Just like you are building a high rise building, there is some mistakes in the foundation or the initial stories, but what is built is built, what is done is done, so you have to keep building it up further with more awareness and compensating the past mistakes. What is workable & changeable, work on that & change it better. What is not workable & changeable, accept it and learn about it, & deal with it. Enjoy what is enjoyable till it lasts, and deal with what not good.

You have to live in present,
but you have to live in the direction of future,
and you have to be connected to the learnings from the past.
You cannot learn from past in the past, nor you cannot plan for future in the future. Anything you do and can do is in present only. Increase your awareness. Be aware more and more of what is right now.