If you don't know how to use it.
Blessed enough to grow up in America, the richest country in the world. We have everything: air conditioning, heat, food, water, posture pedic mattresses and nose hair clippers, back scratchers, maids, nannies, public restrooms with free toilet paper; opportunities to live fully and well. But we don't know how to use it. People obsess about their hair and nails and weight and skin and boobs, and time and money and money and money. Yet, we constantly spend more than we have, usually buying meaningless crap we justify that we need somehow becasue we've been brainwashed by advertising. And we waste so much precious time! If only we all knew what it is like to lose a child or a loved one or to be terminally ill, to really start living each day, each moment, without actually having to go through it. We might actually take advantage of what we have. The present.
Breathing in I calm my body, breathing out I smile
dwelling in the present moment.
I know this is a wonderful moment.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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