Welcome to the here and now...

I've had a hard beginning.

Dreams fade. Friends Fail. Love sometimes isn't enough.

Over the years, I've learned there is no control; there is nothing you can do to manipulate your life or prepare to point it in a direction that you want it to go in. There are no assurances, no absolutes, and no guarantees that anything you do will endure or succeed. There is only the preverbal Death and Taxes. And Disappointment. And, sometimes... joy.

There is only here, right now-- The moment. We can do only the best we can in every passage of time and every tangible space we find ourselves in-- The here and the now.

The past is done. There is nothing that can be done to change anything that has happened. The future is unforeseeable. It is complete impossibility to know what will happen in the coming moments, seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, and on and on.

Obvious, right?

Absolutely.

Then why are so many living their lives utterly dependent on a plan? Why are there so many that turn away an amazing thing they have in a moment? Why? Plans are good to give comfort. Plans are made to give a sense of purpose and appropriate direction. These are good things to have but they aren't the only things to have.

Do we make our own destiny?

Is it written for us?

Maybe a little of both?

I don't know.

All I know right now is the moment I live right now.

Brice M. Spencer