Living in the Past, Looking to the Future, Forgetting where we are

I know it's been over almost a year and a half since my last post. My own sister has inspired me to started writing again and you can visit her blog here.

Anyway, this isn't going to be just a place for me to complain about stupid stuff as I originally intended, but just a chance to write about what i want to write about. Some spiritual, some work related, some school related, some just random stuff that I find amusing. Just no sports stuff. You can find my random musings on sports at 110 percent.

I was reading a blog about living in the moment today and it really struck me. He basically said that we mostly dwell on the past or the future and rarely live in the moment. I think that this is my problem. I just sorta survive from one day to the next, spending alot of deep thoughts on the past (missed opportunities, mistakes, sins, successes, fun stuff that's long gone, woulda, coulda, shouldas) and on the future (what I want to be doing, what I ought to be doing, who will be with me). I think it's simply easier to do that.

The past is easy but it encourages lazy thinking. What's done is done and there is nothing you can do about it. I majored in communication in college and enjoyed it at the time, but in light my current studies in marriage and family therapy, perhaps I would have been better off majoring in psychology, or even done what my parents wanted and majored in education. But it's useless to retreat back there. I did what I did and it affects who I am today.

The future represents the hopes that whatever is happening now can get better. I can be a better husband. I can get back involved in what God is doing in my area. My still unborn baby girl can have a happy, secure life, knowing her daddy loves her and will take care of her as best as he can. Then it'll all come together.

The fact of the matter is that life is one struggle to the next. As I said, I usually just try to survive from day to day, making the best of whatever situations come my way. A wise man once said that life is what happens to you while your making plans. Life is in the now. The past is gone and the future isn't promised.