Be Present | From the Wild Isadora

​Be present.
 
That’s it.
 
That is the one resolution for the year. 
 
Call it laser focus. Call it meditation. Call it the force, or zen. 
 
Whatever you call it, at the end of the day it is an action that requires no action. 
 
Being present requires no extra costs, no additional add-ons, no plug-ins, no fees, it just requires a resolve. 
 
A resolve for improvement. A resolve for connection. A resolve to be aware of your beingness that is you. 
 
Simple, sure. Easy, hell no; which makes this next statement a tie-in to the above.
 
Step-by-step, second-by-second, minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour, day-by-day, week-by-week, month-by-month. Presence is an ever-constant flux that always provides the opportunity to be present, yet again, if one resolves to. 
 
There are various discussions that could take place here. One could say the simple pursuit of presence is in itself not being present, which is, of course, a valid point. 
 
However, having these types of discussions would then itself lead to the individual not really being in the present now, wouldn’t it?
 
Ah, existentialism. So vague. So simple. Yet, so complex. 
 
Regardless of this or that, one thing we can all agree upon is that we have all come to the conclusion that the here and now is what we have and can, in some way, guarantee. 
 
Plans, dates, the future, all seems but a figment of the imagination as we recover from last year. 
 
We previously got so wrapped up in the doing that we forgot how to be, as some of the life coaches would say. 
 
We forgot who we are, what we can do, and our talents that we hid because we had “no time” to pursue them. We forgot the importance of our social circles, whoever those may consist of.
 
We learned that a hug can mean so much and a smile can lighten the mood. We learned to express ourselves differently. We learned a house could be a prison or it could be a place of rebirth. We learned that distance means so little when someone means so much.
 
We learned many of things, but overall, we learned that no one knows what will happen tomorrow or the next hour or the next second.
 
So as we go bravely continue into this new year, stronger than the person we were before, let us remember to stay present in all that we have in front of us. Let us remember that the now is all we are given. Everything else doesn’t exist…yet.

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