Waiting to Exhale

We are all familiar with moments that take our breath away. Our first kiss, a beautiful sunset, a newborn baby, majesic mountains and such. This is a natural response to something exquisite; something special. I've been looking at my life and I'm starting to realize that I spend way to much time waiting for the next wonderful thing. I need to breathe. To exhale. To experience the now, rather than waiting for something else to come along. I spend too much time reminiscing about the past experiences or impatiently waiting for the future. But both of these steal from the present. In reality there is no past or future. That is a structure of the mind. Our brains remember, and have the ability to forecast based on past experiences. I'm not saying we shouldn't appreciate the past or the future. It's just that I have wasted so much of my life doing this that I have missed out on my present. No longer. Carpe Diem as they say. Seize the Day. So what shall I do? Today......