In The Right Now

by someday_93

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No one really wants to live in yesterday. Too many bad memories, tears unshed just waiting for you to return to them, to let them be unleashed. And even the happy times of the past seem so far away, lost in a world you really can’t get back to. Yeah, no one wants to live in yesterday.

And yet, it’s just as hard to live in tomorrow. Always wondering, not what is, but what is to be. If you’ll live up to everyone’s expectations. Will I get into the best college? Will I pass the geometry test? Will I be the person I’ve always wanted to be? Tomorrow is never really here—maybe that’s why it tends to be so attractive. We can say, “Tomorrow, that’s when I’ll look in the mirror and say I’m beautiful.’ Tomorrow.”

Unreachable. Yesterday is too long ago, while tomorrow is so far away…

But still, despite everything that we may know, most of us are either “yesterday’s children,” or, “children of tomorrow.” But not me. I’m making it my goal to spend the rest of my life here, in the right now.

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  1. In The Right Now

    emma jo_234's Buddy Icon emma jo_234

    Posted 9 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Wow, that’s amazing. That is so cool. I love you wrote it…like a philosophy for life. Neither in the past nor future….just here.

    Beautiful.

  2. In The Right Now

    Storykeeper of Fae's Buddy Icon Storykeeper of Fae

    Posted 9 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    I have pondered many an early morning upon such a concept. Time puzzles me…it is man’s attempt at putting eternity in a box. Of course it doesn’t quite fit.

    Beautifully worded.

    LoA

  3. In The Right Now

    Blusparrow's Buddy Icon Blusparrow

    Posted 9 months ago

    I read this article on how you brain make time an allusion. when you get older the allusion slows down and time goes faster, scary huh?

  4. In The Right Now

    One Time, One Chance's Buddy Icon One Time, One Chance

    Posted 9 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    beautifully, amazingly written!

  5. In The Right Now

    `crayola.'s Buddy Icon `crayola.

    Posted 9 months ago

    loverly.

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