There are some days when you just want to live.

 

Not to look at the present, nor the future, nor the past, just to exist. And that is your right. Don’t search. Just be.

I don’t know if you have noticed the trend in recent years about focusing on the present. Or as we say in my profession (as a psychologist), the “here and now.” A tendency that aims to help a person ground themselves, not let their mind wander into the past and the future, and to live better, to live the moment.

There is, however, a “but.”

Just as the concepts of the past and the future - and our thoughts about them - can burden the mind, in the same way the effort to return to the present can also have an effect, especially when it becomes yet another task.

Also, I believe that, since we already move within space and time, how easy would it really be to focus on the moment? By the time you think about it, it has already passed. And by the time you read this sentence, the present has passed again.

Don’t you sometimes feel that you simply want to live? Without demands. Without advice or tools for managing life? Many times, I just want to let go, without any explanation and without translating life into meaning. Just to exist. Just to live. To move with the flow of life and the orbit of the earth. Within no concept. Simply in what my eyes see and what my mind feels.

What do you think?