The Magic of Now...

So, there is something so inevitable about the concept of time... It can not be frozen, or hurried, or turned back, or flashed forward.

So many things stay in the past, like those ugly glasses I wore in middle school and would never ever wear again even if I was paid, or those bangs I cut myself when I was 10 and grew back not so patiently 'cause I do not look good with bangs, those I so want to leave in the past. You know why? because I keep cutting them at least every 2 years, just to get to the same old conclusion: I still do not look good in bangs, for God's sake!!!

So many other things seem to belong only to the future, like dreaming about vacations to the Greek Islands or plans for the moment I get back to live full time with my hubby.
Sometimes I find myself in the present either thinking about all the things I lived in the past or about all the things I would love to live in the future... and then the Right Now escapes to me, I let it go, I fail to live and succeed to remember and dream.

I need to focus in the importance of being present because yesterday will never come back and tomorrow will always be an assumption, it might or might not happen, either it will show up in a different way I planned or it might never happen at all!!! so what sense does it make to stay stationary with those two guys?, when I can run free and do whatever I want with the right now, because that one is mine, completely mine, and no one can take it from me, I can either have a blast with it or let it go and never see it again, regretting how little I enjoyed it.

This, Now, Is all I have for sure, and I am living it, and you know what, it is perfect... it tastes like glory, it smells like roses, it looks gorgeous, it sounds like chirping birds and it feels intense... it is not better than anything and it is not worse than anything, it just IS and I am loving it!

So... that's my thing!

On Sunday I was in the park next to the library's pond, it was early and there were only a few people around, only those crazy early risers like me, and I witnessed the sunrise while I was jumping rope to the beat of Kylie Minogue and Madonna... and I was smiling, all 40 minutes straight, even when my heart got to 160 bpm, I felt so absolutely happy, thankful, and connected to the Universe... so in sync with the wind, with the birds around, with the water calmed and still, with the bright sun. I was so there, so present, so full of life, with energy flowing in me, trhu me, out of me and coming back.
There was no other thing I would rather be doing or other place I would rather be.

Then I realized I felt exactly the same way on Wednesday while I was swimming in the natatorium, or on Saturday during my 7k run... Hitting the pavement, or the pool, or the bike, or the mat, it all brings the same feeling to me... I love the strength in my body, what it is actually able to do, how I can take it to the next level and it feels so empowering, it is like I can conquer the world... That's my thing!!! That's so my thing.

And I started observing everyone around me and we all have our own thing, something that brings passion to our lives, some things that make us smile, that make us forget the clock, that make us feel unique, enough, marvelous...


It can be either painting and drawing, doing crafts, or taking pictures, or solving math problems and playing with equations and numbers, the weirdest things I don't really get (and they might say the same about my "weird" fitness love), it is just amazing to see the spark in their eyes and a truth joy and good energy flow. That's what it is all about, finding those special things that light our lives and find time to bring them to our busy schedules, get to do those things that make us think it is all worth it!