Living

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today."

Dale Carnegie

Are you putting off living? Are you delaying your happiness? We all have dreams about the perfect life. I will be happier when... I get a new job, or I get the perfect relationship, or the kids have grown up and left home, or I win the lottery. We tend to think that something different has to happen before we can really enjoy our life. We forget that the good things in life happen when we start appreciating what we already have.

It is true that the roses blooming outside our windows today may not be perfect. They have thorns. But even with thorns, they are still beautiful, and that is what we need to focus our attention on. All we really have, all we really can be sure about, is the present. That's why we must be happy in the present. We can't ever be sure that the magical rose garden over the horizon will ever come to us, so it makes sense to just enjoy what we know that we have. Life is too short to spend it wishing that everything was different. We should be savoring our life right now, and there's always good things to savor if we look for them; because tomorrow might never come.

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