From the author: People! People! You rush through life, picking up speed more and more. It seems like only yesterday you were crying, grabbing your mother’s leg when you went to kindergarten, but now it’s school graduation, it seems like yesterday you were 20, 25, 30 years old, tomorrow... 40, 45, 50, 75... You have no time stop, enjoy what has been achieved, look back at the path traveled and... enjoy the moment! Stop! Look around! Life is fleeting. Learn to enjoy the little things and the moment! Here and now! You need to live in the present, with hope for the future and with the experience of the past.... (C) It would seem like a hackneyed phrase “here and now”, but it is as important as it is hackneyed. - Here is the only PLACE , where you need to live, and now is the TIME in which you need to live. - Who needs it? - You ask. - For me! - I will answer. - Don’t you? If your answer is “no,” then you can “with a clear conscience” close my article. If the answer is “yes”, then... The rule - “enjoy the present” translated means: “If the sun is shining outside the window and a sparrow is chirping, listen for a second to these sounds of life, enjoy this moment.” - Why do I need all this? - you ask. - Living in the current moment dispels regrets, overcomes anxiety, and reduces stress. - I will answer, - Concentrate on what YOU DO (“here and now”), and not on what you did in the past or will do in the future. After all, there is no past as such - it is only a burden of passive emotional experiences and knowledge in the form experience of mistakes and victories. Of course, experience is very important. He is yours, he is the rake that you hope not to step on in the future, but at this very moment, when you heard the sparrow singing outside the window and saw the Sun, this experience does not play any role. Learn to enjoy the moment. The future is even more illusory and ephemeral than the past. There is no future yet; it can only exist in our fantasies and plans. We can assume about it, think about it, predict its results, but it is tomorrow, and perhaps it may not exist for various reasons that are not always dependent on us. The same is with problems. There is a well-known phrase: “solve problems as they arise.” There is no point in lining up catastrophes in the future in your head and deeply experiencing them in the present. Otherwise it will turn out like in the famous English fairy tale: “Three Clever Heads.” Once upon a time there lived a farmer and his wife, and they had one and only daughter, who had a fiancé, a certain gentleman. Every evening he came to visit them and stayed to have dinner. And the daughter was sent to the cellar for beer. So one day she went downstairs, began to strain the beer into a jug, and look at the ceiling and what she sees is an ax sticking out in the beam. That’s right, they stuck it there a long time ago. - a long time ago, but one way or another, she didn’t notice him before. And she began to think and ponder: “It’s not good for the ax to stick out here! So we get married, and we have a son, and he grows up big, and goes down to the cellar for beer, and an ax suddenly falls on his head and kills him. This is going to be a disaster!" The girl put a candle and a jug on the floor, sat down on the bench and began to cry. And upstairs they were thinking: what happened, why is she drinking beer for so long? The mother went down to the cellar and saw: her daughter was sitting on the bench and crying , and the beer was already flowing on the floor. “What are you talking about?” asks the mother. “Oh, mother!” says the daughter. “Just look at this terrible ax!” he will go down to the cellar for beer, and the ax will suddenly fall on his head and kill him. What a disaster! - Oh, fathers, what a disaster! - And the mother sat down next to her daughter and also burst into tears. A little later, the father became alarmed. : Why is this, he thinks, they’re not coming back. And he went down to the cellar himself and saw that they were both sitting and crying, and the beer had already spilled all over the floor. “Well, what is it?” he asks. “Oh, just look at this.” this terrible ax! - says the mother. - Well, when our daughter gets married, and she has a son, and he grows up big, and goes down to the cellar for beer, and the ax suddenly falls on his head and kills him. There will be grief! - Oh-oh, that’s the point... -.: 8(916)132-11-43