Now is Always a New Experience

Moving on from finding your 'Now', you have to experience your 'Now' too. Whether it is a unique and exciting adventure or simply waiting at the airport terminal. You have to be there to own the moment. So many times I just get lost in my thoughts I am not really part of the experience and may just lose out on learning something new. Each and every experience is a potential learning experience. We should be exploring the world with eyes of a child, as if we were experiencing things for the first time. Looking for the new in everything. As often as we do seemingly routine tasks, I can guarantee you that there will be something new and unique you can find in each occasion. If you struggle to find the 'New', then make it. Alter your routine slightly, go a different route, sit in a different place. Doing this will place you in new environments where you can find the 'New'. No matter how small or seemingly insignificant the 'New' is, try it.

This is quite a difficult concept for me to adopt as I am a systematic, routine type of person. I think I would be happier if I was in fact a robot! Change is not easy for me and is always accompanied by a mountain of stress. In the world we live in, change seems to be occurring faster and faster or perhaps our lives just seem to be progressing quicker and quicker. Either way we encounter change at a rapid rate. Being stubborn and trying to resist the flood of change is in fact futile. (Saying that, perhaps I am part robot. Star Trek joke for us nerds.) There is so much to gain by using new methods but you will have to try it to really know for yourself.

So this message is probably directed at myself more than anybody else, to let the 'New' happen and work with it to make it a positive 'New' even if it is seemingly wrong. If the change is inevitable or you have little control over the outcomes, then even more reason to work with 'it' to turn it into something positive. Fighting will only bring more anguish and stress. I do not see this as 'giving in' but rather working to make the most of what you are dealt. If you are not going to do it, it is highly unlikely anybody else will do it for you. So take charge of your 'Now' and make the 'New' an experience you want it to be.