Does anyone else feel like they’re getting better at living in the present?

Two years ago around this time, I was on tour in China - shaking hands, hugging, meeting lots of wonderful people. I knew those were special moments, but they seem even more special now considering the events of the last two years.

I’m a very goal oriented person, so I tend to live in the future in my mind more often than the present. But since recently none of us have been able to make the plans we want to make, and we have no idea what tomorrow will be like - you can’t really live in the future at all. We’re (hopefully) more aware of the fact that we can only really live in the present moment.

The disappointments of the past can also weigh you down if you keep focusing on them. We’ve all had a huge pile of disappointments and discouragement in the last two years. But the challenge and the invitation is to be able to let go of them, so that they don’t keep holding you down in the present, and prevent you from experiencing the good things right in front of you.

I know it sounds cliche, but the present is where we’re meant to live - and if we get better at it, I’d say that’s a good thing that is coming out of all this.

人生，就是屡败屡战的跋涉，只有一路前进，没有犹豫退缩；岁月，就是傲雪欺霜的磨砺，只有锲而不舍，没有胆小怯懦；风雨，就是一种历经沧桑，只有无怨无悔，没有怨天尤人。

Life is a repeated defeat of the trek, only all the way forward, no hesitation retreat; years, is the sharpening of the arrogant snow bullying, only perseverance, no cowardice; wind and rain, is a vicissitudes of life, only no regrets. There is no blame on others.

We all live in the past. We take a minute to know someone, one hour to like someone, and one day to love someone, but the whole life to forget someone. 每个人都生活在各自过去中，会用一分钟去认识一个人，用一小时去喜欢一个人，再用一天去爱上一个人，到最后呢却要用一辈子去忘记一个人。#情感#