It's easy to worry about the future and reminiscing on the past, but only in the present is where you find real happiness.

Staying in the now

Somewhere along growing up, cellphones were introduced into our lives, slowly it starts to take over us, and even took control over our lives. We start to lose the ability to walk in silence, to wait and queue in line without a phone in our hands, we forgot how to do nothing and just be. If we are constantly focused on the little black box in our hands, who is there to observe all the beauty that is all around the world? Who would notice that the clouds looked a bit like a caterpillar today? Who would find the little wildflowers that grew along the cracks of the broken tiles? The world didn't lose it's magic, we are just too distracted to see the wonder being performed.

Flower teaches us to be present. We have to be in the now to be able to admire a flower's beauty, not worrying about that in a short time the flower will inevitably wilt, not wasting time trying to defy the law of nature, to preserve it's beauty. To really appreciate a flower's charm, is to know that you are here when it's blooming, flowers are so pretty when it blooms isn't it? Being anxious about the future costs us our present, and only by staying in the now you can stop being worried about tomorrow.