To be there in the midst of it all: Enjoy the moment! Can we actually be? In a way, one is never there so to speak. We are always on the go, not quite with the moment but moving on. In another way, we just exist, full stop without quite being there, or more precisely here, ready to be.
Mostly, it also leads to passivity. In passivity, we are (just) pawns and are led away. No longer do we reflect, or take praxis in that there is an acknowledgement of the now-ness. We are overwhelmed by the future, what needs to be doing. There is little concern to being there.
Being there may mean acknowledging of the authentic I-ness in en–situation where one appreciates and find oneself. It is like catching a glimpse of oneself in mindfulness which the Buddha may speak of. It is giving all our attention, intentionally to this moment; and in this moment indeed to that richness of life or being.
The alternative is to move on and on and never quite being part of the beauty of the moment. The question is can one be free of all temporal, prejugée at least to be there. So what is being there? How may it help one’s being-in-the-world? How may it be useful in one’s relationship? Or in our projects?
What benefits may one have for being there? Alternatively what may one not have/forgo for not being there? And or always running away from that moment? Is there if any mileage in: just watch oneself live, observe the stillness of life as it unfolds? What does it all mean for me as an individual who wants to be?
In this being, we see things as they are. We apprehend and interact with life, with that which is revealed in the present. We appreciate and live in the moment. It is our now-ness, a now-ness which is not blurred by a vision of running away towards a future which may never be, since adopting such a strategy always may mean that were always on the run for ever and in that process miss out on our daily living.
From a relaxation perspective, one may appreciate all that is but from a coaching one does that mean that misses out on the aspect of planning? And is not failure to plan indicative of planning to fail? Or does that mean that one mis-apprehends the now-ness as it reveals to me? What do you think?