The Future is Today

Most of us -- 99.9% of us -- make a kind of strange, life-changing "deal" with this thing called future. We say -- in many different ways -- that when something in the future happens, then we'll do something else. Perhaps it's a question of money, or of relationships, or anything else.

Basically, we make deals with life. And even stranger, we make deals with God -- as if God (and I'm not preaching here) is a kind of...well, a kind of thing on eBay that will be impressed by a good offer. As if we say to God "Okay, you won't give me the job I want if I merely donate 2 hours of my week to charity...what about 4? Okay final offer...6? 6.5 PLUS this amazing blender that slices, and dices, and chops carrots like you've never seen before..."

If you're offended by how absurd this all is, then good -- because it really IS this absurd. This is how millions of people live and communicate with life (or God or "the universe" or whatever). They try and broker and negotiate "terms."

It's all so...weird, really.

Life is simple. It's, in fact, far too simple for the human mind to accept -- because the mind really has no value in a simple world -- and so people make things wildly more complicated than they are; because complexity needs mind, and mind needs complexity.

You can't make a "deal" with the future, because, quite simply, there is no such thing as future.

Yeah, yeah, you can look at a calendar and say that a month from now is "future," but that's just really an organizing tactic -- something to add a shape to an otherwise essentially shapeless experience.

In reality -- and we all know this from ongoing personal experience (that we don't pay attention to!), there is no such thing as future. We've never "arrived" in the future. We aren't "moving ahead" towards tomorrow, we're always in the same place. ALWAYS. We are in the precise same place now as we were in our childhood, and where we'll be if we're lucky enough to make it another 20 years or 40 years or however many years "from now." Really, there is no from now. There's just this.

Right now. THIS.

THIS is your future.

And -- simply -- if you want to experience a better, more nourishing, more peaceful, more satisfying THIS, then you can't wait until the future "shows up" so you'll "show up." There is nothing to show up. The future isn't going to arrive -- it never arrives.

So if you want to start becoming more loving, more understanding, more compassionate, more empathetic, more giving, more YOURSELF, then here is the only advice you need: start now.

You can't start tomorrow. Not because you won't -- but because you can't.

Why wait until you're on your death bed to finally figure this out -- it'll be too late! Figure it out NOW and enjoy your precious life.

Weird, isn't it?