Focus On Today, Never Tomorrow

A wise man once said, “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift… that’s why they call it present”.

Today is one of the best gifts we receive every day yet it is one of the gifts underappreciated.

It is underappreciated because most of the time our mind is going through what happened yesterday or what will happen tomorrow.

When we think about what happened yesterday, we try to “undo” or think about how we could do it the other way around.

When we think about what will happen tomorrow, we worry about the things we don’t like to happen. And most of the time these worries, don’t happen.

We are either thinking from yesterday or tomorrow and rarely today.

Why? Why can’t we think of the present instead of some other time?

Most of the time we act like that because we are in an environment that stimulates it. We are in an environment that favors thinking about the past or the future. For example, we worry about the future because we fear losing our job. And if we lose our jobs, we don’t know how to survive. And so we cannot sleep at night.

But if we are in an environment that doesn’t stimulate it like away from the central places. We naturally appreciate life nevertheless.

Since we cannot just abandon our places and go to a certain environment, one of the practices we can do is meditation. By meditating, we remove the stimulants by closing our eyes and focus on our breath. It allows us to pull ourselves and be “present”.

It will be challenging to never focus on tomorrow. But we can lessen our focus for tomorrow and appreciate what life offers today.

May you reach your dreams.

Source: JM Santos