In life it's so easy to get caught up in working towards the future. We spend so much time looking ahead of us and trying to figure out what we're going to do with our lives that we forget to look around us. People always say don't look towards the past, but towards the future...In doing this, though, we focus so hard on the future that we don't actually look at the present.

I once had a teacher who would say, "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift, that's what it's called the present." This is absolutely true, yet it goes so unacknowledged. The present is what we should live for, we should focus on the moment at hand. Tomorrow will come...or it won't. If we spend all our time looking at tomorrow or next week or next year, as myself will do, we'll forget to look at each individual day and cherish it.

As a college student it's easy to focus only on the finish line; graduation. That causes one to never look at the race at hand. We sprint so fast to the finish line that we don't actually take the time so see who's running around us, or look at the environment that we're so viciously running past. Taking the time to enjoy each day individually without pondering our entire futures in the process, will do one good.

It's a beautiful thing to look at the things going around you and even take risks within a day. To go outside of our comfort zones and talk to someone new, or to simply smile at someone. To try that new restaurant that just opened. All the things that you can do in a day. To quote one of my favorite movies Ferris Bueller's Day Off, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around every once in a while, you might miss it."

Take time to look around.