LIVING BY THE MOMENT
Vincent Ross , New Delhi: Jul 18 2008
Made Popular Jul 24 2008

By Vincent Van Ross

We live our lives by hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries and millennia.

That is why we lose focus of our day to day life. That is why we live in the past, complain about the present and worry about our future.

If we want to lead a more meaningful life, we must start living our lives by the moment. If we do that, we would be so engrossed with our activities of every moment that we would never find time to cling to our past. We would be so occupied and focused with every moment of our life that we would never find time to find faults with the present. And, we would be so engrossed with the present moment that we would never find the time to worry about what the future holds for us.

If we live every moment of our lives to the fullest, we would never regret anything in our lives. We would not cling to our past. Our present would be smooth sailing. And, we would never have to fear about our future.

If we focus on the present moment and give it our best, we have done justice to our job. We have done the best we could do. We have done justice the moment.

If we do justice to every moment, we do justice to every second of the minute; we do justice to every minute of the hour; we do justice to every hour of the day; we do justice to every day of the week; we do justice to every week of the month; we do justice to every month of the year; we do justice to every year of the decade; we do justice to every decade of the century; and, so on and so forth.

What more can the world demand of us?!

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Bobette
New Orleans, United States
But Vincent our past explains things about the present and the present helps us plan our future. So it all goes together.
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Vincent Ross
New Delhi, India
Bobette, Thanks for pointing this out to me. I value your opinion. In fact, I value everybody’s opinion. It helps us to learn so much. It helps us to grow.
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Alphonse V
Allahabad, India
This is a nice piece of writing too. Vincent, some of your words stick to my mind.
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Vincent Ross
New Delhi, India
It makes me happy to learn that you enjoyed this story. Thanks for your time.
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Bharat Singh
New Delhi, India
Vincent, You said it. If you take care of the cents, dollars will take care of themselves.
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Vincent Ross
New Delhi, India
That was the idea, Bharat. I am glad to see that the crux of this article has reached you. Thanks for your time and comments.
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Vincentji

You are a Zen master, nice write up, things which we all know, are the things we usu
usally forgot.

rgds,
Manish
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Vincent Ross
New Delhi, India
What a pleasant surprise Manish Bhai! Welcome to my blog. You should also start blogging. It was after I started blogging that I realised my potential for writing! Thanks to Instablog and the community of friendly bloggers. Instablog community is really a closely knit family. As for being a Zen master, I am not one yet. But, if I continue writing like this, there is a very real danger that I might become one!
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Deepa
mumbai, India
Hey Vincent, I hit this post at a time when I am was tad upset with certain situation I am facing. Reading this certainly loosened my state of mind but then its easier said than done. Living in present does help a lot but its tough to detach from the past and future.

Hats off to your composed sanity!
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Vincent Ross
New Delhi, India
Hi Deepa,

If you found repose in this article, I feel flattered. That is more than what any blogger could ask of his post.

One of the fellow bloggers who visited this page summarised my piece quite aptly. He said: If you take care of your cents, dollars will take care of themselves.

It is something we all know. There are no two ways about it.

The secret is to keep yourself occupied. If you are really busy, you would never find time to think of the past or the future.

Thanks for all your compliments.
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