Celebrate Now
We spend the vast majority of our mental, emotional and spiritual energy focusing either on the past (our wounds, our losses, our history, our failures) or on the future (our plans, our goals, our obligations, our dreams). As a result, we have almost no energy to focus on the present, which is a shame, because the right-here-and-now is the one moment that can offer any true, meaningful or evolutionary experience.
Our culture encourages us to be constantly doing, striving, reaching for the next thing. So our minds are always hyperactive – thinking, worrying, looking forward to or dreading whatever is around the corner. Obsessed with our fears, wants and struggles, we barely ever acknowledge what we have, take pleasure in the beauty around us, or get into the groove just being who, what and where we are.
Our energy may be high, our output may be incredible, but if we stay in that future-centric mindset for long, we will forever be vaguely dissatisfied. The trading of the present moment for anything else, “greatly reduces the quality of your life,” leaving one with the indelible feeling that – no matter how much one has – something essential is missing.
So what are we to do? Toss our five-year plans and handheld organizers out the window? Not necessarily. We just have to stop giving them all our attention and power. “There is nothing wrong with setting goals and striving to achieve things,” “The mistake lies in using [them] as a substitute for the feeling of life, for Being. The only point of access for that is the Now.”
Osho says – Life is for those who know how to celebrate.
