Hi V, It's always good to see you posting here - I think a lot of people benefit from your your thoughts and your words. Staying in the present, however obvious it might seem after a while, does prove to be much trickier to accomplish as one gets older. Sometimes our ideas of the future can lure us into looking far beyond today - and that's good, to some degree, since it brings with it a sense of hope - but I think it's also risky, since it can also bring with it a sense of expectation..and that gets messy real fast.
Sometimes - at least for me - thoughts seem to spiral around and around an issue that maintains a strong presence in my life...the thoughts just stay there, spinning and spinning, round and round like they're trying to find the end of an infinite spiral...Every now and then I get enough sense to step off the spiral and see it for what it is...a journey for its own sake that will arrive nowhere of consequence...that can be good for some experiences..useless for others...
