Living In The Present Book Novels & Stories

Char said before I heard the clanking of the utensils. "I'm not sure about her but that just how I look at every girl. We're living together so I have to play nice." I felt a pang on my chest as I heard his words. Playing nice, that's all he was doing. I felt my eyes swell up as his words hit me like a ton of bricks, but I immediately shook those thoughts away and composed myself before entering the kitchen with a big smile plastered on my face. "Good morning! It smells good in here." I exclaimed as I sat down beside Charlotte. "Looks like you two are getting along."

"Through my experience of life, I have learned one thing. Life is unpredictable, no one knows what is going to happen next and we can't change our past either. What's past is past and future is uncertain, the only thing that we have in our hands is present" He paused giving me time to infer his words. "By mourning over the past that you can't change or by overthinking about your future which is absolutely out of your control you are just ruining your present" He looked into my eyes deeply. "Learn to live into the moments, facing life's difficulties bravely and expecting the unexpected" There was a stillness in the environment as he was finished explaining things. "You know what?" He raised h

He smiles and I bite my lip, finishing the ice cream I drop the cone. —It isn’t just an inferiority complex what I suffer from, Alex. - I whisper. - I like you too. And I'm scared. I fear of what might happen next, I’m afraid of... —The future doesn't exist, magissa mou - he cuts me off- It's an illusion. The past is every minute that is gone, the present is here and now but future will never come. Can't you see it? You live in fear instead of seizing the moment, fearing what comes next, fearing tomorrow without knowing that there is no such tomorrow. We only have today. You expect changes that are supposed to come with the future, but you will always live in the present, the same boring, sa

The book is called The Brief for the Second Life: How Real Things Move Between People. The title arrived in August, on the morning she realized that the book had been circling its own subject for three years and had finally reached it: not the practice as a methodology but the practice as a way of being, transmitted not through teaching but through the specific quality of attention that passes between people who are paying attention to the same things at the same time. The book is in four parts.

I love that about her, she doesn't care if people make fun or criticize. "There are better things to do in this life so instead of giving relevance to situations or people that don't have it just enjoy and be happy." That's what he has always told me, and how right he is. In less time than a rooster can crow we arrive at our destination, we enter the psychology center and it is 9AM, the exact time of my appointment. We sit down in the waiting room, minutes later my psychologist appears through the door of her office and beckons me to come in.

I certainly know that there is some sort of conflict looming deep in the shadows but right now, I am just going to live in the moment and forget about anything that is possible of happening in the future. I am going to live in the moment as I already said and let the future decide for itself. After all, this realm is full of surprises and I may end up getting disappointed if I bet so high on the future. Author’s note; Thank you for reading, stay safe.

Sarah's POV I believe in the saying "expect the unexpected" for that already happened to me several times. I always think about what is going to happen everywhere I go. This may sound so weird, but overthinking a part of my life. I never think of any positive if I am only thinking for myself. As a little girl who grew up in a house full of arrogant and competitive people, I always think that something bad will happen like failure. So what I did to myself is to think advance. I always think of everything that may happen, but this one, this happening now, I really don't think of it, even in my dreams.

I shook my head at his question. “But now, after five years, the future is so different from what you or anyone could have ever imagined,” I nodded. “Jane we can’t decide or know, what future holds for or what our future will be, but still we hope and build our future in our imagination, life is not permanent, people come people go and all we are left is with memories, Living the moment is what life is,” Each and every word of Brandon is correct. I can’t imagine my life without Jared, but now is not with me, and I can’t let the scars of the past or the fear of the future destroy my present and my present is with me now.

I stayed because for the first time in years, I felt like I was living instead of just existing. And somewhere in the staying, in the mornings waking up to paint-stained sheets and the smell of coffee, in the evenings watching him work while I sketched building designs, I realized I’d stopped running toward some distant future and started inhabiting my present. It terrified me. It thrilled me. It felt like finally, finally breathing.

“Now? Now we take it one step at a time. You don’t have to have all the answers right now. You just have to decide what you want in this moment. What you need.” It wasn’t the answer I had expected, but somehow, it was the one I needed to hear. I had spent so much time focusing on what was coming next, on what I had to do to control my future, that I had forgotten the importance of the present. Of right now. Of just taking things one day at a time. I swallowed hard, looking at him. “And you? What do you want, Stefan?”