If you are living in memories instead of moments...

you are no longer really living at all. Remember how good things were back then, how uncomplicated and easy life was? Well cut it out!

This thing we are all experiencing, called life, its not about sitting around and missing or wishing for something in the past. The past girlfriend (the one that got away), the past high school or college friend (the one who could always get your crazy side out), the past success or failure, the past anything. They all have one thing in common: THEY GET IN YOUR WAY. Because when you are thinking about that girl that you let go, the girl that's perfect for you is staring you straight in the face, and when you are thinking about that past failure you can scare yourself out of your potential next success.

Today is a new day, and every morning you get a fresh start. Its a gift, don't throw it away. The more we sit and look back, the less we are moving forward. A professor of mine once said that when we are finding ourselves we are all in a forest. We can look at every tree and maybe even climb some and decide what we like about eat one. But then, we walk out of that forest one day and what we find is a cliff, a big huge scary one. We have three choices: run back into the forest, sit still on the cliff, or JUMP. Only one of these choices is living and unfortunately, its the scariest, riskiest and hardest choice, but the reward is worth it. We get to become our self. That inner thing that you spend your whole life trying to find. Well guess what? Its not impossible, there are just many things in the way to actually finding it. Things like the past.

Its easy to live in the past, its comfortable and it makes us feel good. This is partially due to the fact that we choose how we remember. All those things you love about the past you can choose to remember them most and so when you sit in the middle of the road looking back everything looks rather pleasant. If you turn around to the future, you can't see a thing and actually you are pretty much going in blind. BUT there is so much beauty hidden in the future. So much beauty hidden in LIVING and you can find it one moment at a time.

All you have to do is CLOSE YOUR EYES, TAKE A DEEP BREATH, AND JUST JUMP.