Live Each Day Like It's Your Last

It's funny you know, it doesn't matter what I read the theme is always the same. Complete happiness come from living in the now... staying in the present.

Most of us spend our whole lives living in the future or the past. We're either so focused on future goals and events, that we wait for life to be over... waiting for the weekend, or the next holiday, the next job.

Conversely if we spend our lives dwelling on the past, on missed opportunities, regretting life situations or our "cruel fate" that led us to our current situation, we have no hope of enjoying what we have.

Life is about the journey, not arriving at the destination.

When I was at the gym on Sunday I looked around at the other people working out. Mostly on a Sunday evening, it's the dedicated gym-goers, the very regulars. I had seen most of them many times before, and judging by the outstanding physiques (which I wish I had) they spend a lot of their time at the gym.

Now I'm not going to say that exercise is a bad thing, because it isn't, but it's obvious that the people I observed took exercise way past what is required for good health. Ignoring the fact that many of the guys were injecting or consuming something to make their muscles disproportionately large, these people were obsessed with their fitness and physique.

And I wondered... how many of those people with awesome bodies are happy with the way they look? How many of them want to shed a few more pounds of fat and gain a few more pounds of muscle? Looking at the amount of sweat being produced, I'd say most of them.

Which brings me to an interesting question. If any of them suddenly had a nasty accident and had a major disfigurement to one of their prominent and well-shaped body parts, how devasted would they be? Would they suddenly look back on what they used to have and appreciate it more? Would they wish for the disfigurement to be returned to what it was, and happily live in their 'old' body? Yes?

So why can't they live happily with what they already have?

Make the commitment to live each day like it's your last. Laugh, be happy and be in the present.