Immersed

The moment you are in now always seems like the one that will last forever. Anticipating things to be any different than they are right now, in this moment, is seemingly impossible.

It can be the best feeling in the world to think that you are in a perfect time and that it will never end. Sometimes, when I find myself in that moment, I hang onto it and memorize it and keep it somewhere safe in a corner in my mind, so that when I am in a place where it feels a little more lonely than usual, I can pull that memory and bask in it for as long as I need.

I do this now because I have learned that good times may go away. It doesn't mean that they won't come back, but things don't last. And the good in our lives isn't an exception.

Had I known then what I know now, I would've been in the moment a lot more and worried a lot less. But I've learned my lesson now and now is all that matters. Any thing that makes me smile or laugh ... any moment (because we all know that things can't make us happy), I imprint it into my whole being so that I can live in that moment any time that I need to.

And also so that I can have a better idea of where to find it again in new experiences.