Every Breath You Take

Many gamblers are by nature "Type A" personalities. They are action oriented, risk taking and impulsive. It is hard for them to be in the moment. Asking them to do so is like expecting Black Sabbath to come and do an acoustic set.

I am the same way. To be in the moment is nearly impossible, but in fact, it is where everything is possible. I read where God does not reside in the past nor does he live in the future, but he is found only in the present.

I preferred living in the past and future because I could accept less responsibility for my life. If I worried about the things I could not control, such as the future and past, then I did not have to take on the only things I could which lay in the present.

A wise mentor once told me that all God guarentees us is our next breath, and the reason is because we can't handle anything more. I'd like to add that most of us can't even handle that. To live in the moment is the greatest responsibility we have as humans, but to be fully present is something most people choose to run from. They rather flee in fantasy or be paralyzed by the past, primarily because most of us are not totally comfortable in our own skin. We have been nicked and cut so much along the way that we abandon what we perceive are our imperfect selves. When we can't hide the shamful parts of ourselves in the shadows, we beat ourselves up with guilt over past regrets, or we displace them by ruminating about "what if's."

Either way, we do not accept ourselves totally and fail to open up to the great mystery of the moment where lay the seeds of all things possible.