Live Now

I read a poem recently by an 8 year old girl where entitled ‘I Never Had a Life’ and it awakened in me something I had lost a long time ago.  This poem made me realise that each day is a day I have lived.  I had forgotten that a day is a present and that it’s not tomorrow that’s important and when I look back at my life I shouldn’t always look too far back, I shouldn’t look at the most painful memories only but also that I should look at the last hour, minute or second.  I should learn to laugh again, to smile again and to re-enjoy moments of pleasure more that moments of trauma and sadness.  It’s hard work but if this girl can see why can’t I?

Most of our lives are so consumed by tomorrow, next week, next year and the horrible things of the past.  Our future will be darkened by the past if we don’t let today or each moment be.  As I grow older and loving it I have come to realise that I have spent most of my life with people calling each other crazy.  I have been told I am crazy too a lot of times because of some unconventional thing I did or said.  Now I think it’s a compliment to be mad, to ... live in your madness and to enjoy it as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else.  I say so because there is so much pressure to confirm to the norm even though there really isn’t one.  The hardliners will impose their norms and the rest of us live miserably by those norms.  They don’t work for me I have realised and from now on I am glad to be crazy, to be me, just to be since it brings harmony and peace to my life. 

I hope all of you who are also crazy like me will also stop trying so hard to be like other people.  If we were all the same there wouldn’t be the planes, roads and clothes.  There most certainly wouldn’t be all this technology because it’s from the mind that all this is cooked up and I do know for a fact that a lot if not all of this minds were called crazy but they lived on being crazy because by so doing they were living their lives.  Let your madness out and find peace within.  We are not meant to be alike, to have the same dreams, passions or pursuits.  We are meant to be individuals whose individuality makes the world a better place.  Each time you hold yourself back with your big idea remember you are not just short-changing yourself but universe too.  Stop dreaming of a better life and dare not just to dream it but to live it too.