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Last week we continued our discussion about unfinished lives by pondering what keeps us from living in the moment. This week the book (Learning to Fall) wants to know if you’ve ever HAD one of those moments. Or it might have been for more than a moment…
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Can you recall a time in your life
when you were able to live fully in the present moment?
How or why did that happen?
What would it take for it to happen again?
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This one makes me a little nervous. I’m wondering if I’ve ever really been in that place… Or have I let past regrets and future worries zap ALL my energy for living in the moment? How about you?
As always, remember to include the link to this post on YOUR blog post. Or if your response isn’t overly long, feel free to leave it in the comment section below. And remember you can interpret the prompt however you wish: memoirs, poems, pictures, etc.
Post link: https://promptlings.wordpress.com/2017/01/17/sandbox-writing-challenge-73-now/
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Picture Source: Before It’s News
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Opher’s comment (Opher’s World) — see below
Clare’s comment (Clare’s Cosmos) — see below
Beth’s comment (amileinmyshoes) — see below
Oneta’s comment (Sweet aroma) — see below
Safar’s comment (Blisters, Bunions & Blarney) — see below
Martha’s comment (MonsterMartha) — see below
Raili’s post (soulgifts–Telling Tales) — In the Now Moment
Calen’s post (Impromptu Promptlings) — What IS the present moment?
Shannon’s post (Survival Skills aka Low Expectations) — In the Moment
Yeva’s post (yevarantsblog) — Now II
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I posted mine on my blog. I try not to look back and say I’d do things OVER or differently cause I regret none of my past but the time you ask about was during a teenager. Time seemed to move so slow then but now looking back it was too fast. I was able to live fully in the moment then.
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That brings up a question for me. I find it interesting that people feel they lived in the moment when they were younger. Why is that, I wonder? I’ll go have a read!
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Orgasm?
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😀 LMBO! You know at Bible study one night I was trying to point out that society as a whole is a living “organism…” Didn’t come out quite that way! No one that was there has ever let me live that down! But you’re right! That’s DEFINITELY an “in the moment” thing! 😀
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Haha, Calen. Embarrassingly funny moments!
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Oh my, i will have to rename you the Orgasm Lady 🙂
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Well THAT’S certainly one thing I’ve never been called! LOL
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I believe I have more “in the moment” experience now as a grandmother. I love watching my great grandchildren grow. If I see one in the rocker, rocking her baby doll, or watch as one labors over a careful drawing, that is an in the moment time fo me. I don’t remember focusing to that extent when it was my duty to be providing all the basics for my own children.
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I know exactly what you mean. I have that same feeling with my three grandsons. 🙂
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Another one is writing. My mind wanders for a while when thinking of what to write and then I’m completely immersed in the moment when I begin writing.
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😦 I USED to feel that way, but I seem to be less and less that way lately. And yet I’m not starting to want to bury myself in my books again. Escapism because I can’t think of what to write?
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When I was young and innocent and had rarely been hurt. I was the most important person to me (selfish, I know). As I got older: special moments with a couple of boys; walking back down the aisle after my wedding vows; my baby being born; watching him perform in school shows. Oh, and school races! I was so in the moment because I was determined to win 🙂 This is thought provoking. I need to try to be more in the moment and not have my head somewhere else.
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What kind of racing did you do, Beth?
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None whatsoever. I took it for granted. But I enjoyed it immensely and resented every restriction, constriction and regimentation that intruded into my freedom. When I was doing exactly what I wanted, when I wanted, I was focussed and in that moment. There were no distractions. It had my full attention. School and college were treated with scant attention because they were the intrusions into me having the freedom to run free. Though I did selectively pay attention to the things I was interested in. I cherry picked. When it was not important to me I withdrew and paid lip service.
I can remember at the end of college seeing the end looming. I would no longer have the freedom to live in the moment. I would be spending much more time being tied down. Living in the moment for me was related to spontaneity.
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I believe as we drove around our country, Dean and I lived smack-bang-in-the-middle of our “NOW” and we loved every minute of it.
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You should explain your comment so folks would know what you were doing! I would say you were in the moment for a whole year!!!
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Here goes . . . I lost my job, we sold our home, replaced it with a caravan, gave away a lot of our possessions, put the rest in storage and, after some careful planning – who am I kidding – with no planning whatsoever, we pointed our car south and proceeded to spend the next two years driving clockwise around Australia. Every day was an adventure, every stop along the way a place of wonder, every corner – every fork – every road – taking us deeper and deeper into what its like to live in the ‘NOW’ and I’d do it all again without one moments hesitation.
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Two years? OMW! I thought it was only ONE year! I’m floored.
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Ok. It was 20 months. But who’s counting. Besides – it was seven months ago now that we finished travelling and I’m still a nomad. 😊
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But not for too much longer!!! 😀
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My youth. I was free to do whatever I wanted when I wanted. I lived in the moment.
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Did you have any inkling you were living in the moment?
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