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Three seconds of your day were spent reading those words, “tick tock, tick tock, tick tock.”
10 seconds of your day have been spent reading this article.
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Every day is composed of 1,440 minutes. Everyone gets to choose how to spend those minutes. How are you choosing to spend yours? Are you laughing until you cry? Are you calling your mom to tell her how much you love her? Are you being brave enough to talk to the babe in your Chemistry class? Are you making someone’s day? Are you alive and living in the present?
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Or are you in the past--thinking about what you should have done, where you should have been, and who you should have been with? Likewise, are you in the future--thinking about what you have to do, where you should be, and who you should be with?
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One minute spent. Were you even present reading this article? Maybe you were…but maybe you weren’t. Try to be present. Try to be here.
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We live in a society that is always five minutes behind or 10 minutes ahead. Being able to slow down, breathe, and appreciate a moment before it becomes a memory is rare. Think of all the life you have missed out on because you have been living in the past or in the future? Imagine if just for one year, one day, one hour, or even one minute you were fully present.
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Could you learn to love the moment, and the moment after that, and the moment after that, and the moment after that?
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Do you think you’d still be worrying if you look good? (Trust me, you do.) Do you think you’d still be stressing over your paper due next week? Do you think you’d be thinking of all of your “should haves” or “could haves” or “would haves"?
Maybe.
But... maybe not.
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Living presently is as important as the air you are breathing. It gives you the power to slow down, look around you, and see all the beauty and joy that makes up your life. Living in the now gives you power--the power to be free from your past and content with your future. The power to be alive. The power to just be.
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Two minutes spent reading this article. Now, how will you spend the rest of your minutes today? Go ahead and make every minute count. Laugh, play, learn, grow, and be. There’s only 1,440 minutes in every day, and only so many minutes in every life. It’s your life, go live it.
