Now

Now

By Frederick J. Blahnik

 

Now is here

And tomorrow is a million dreams away

I’m not going to squander this moment by overplanning and worrying about those million dreams

They are only dreams, after all, only illusions……

While the moment—now—is as real as it gets

Perchance outstanding good luck and good fortune, I will indeed someday reach those million dreams, those million illusions, those million mirages in life’s expansive desert

But that is not my biggest concern right now as I sit here typing on my laptop

Because the moment at hand is all that really matters, now and at any undefined point in the future as well

We can talk all we want about the future

And what we hope to do in it, aim to do in it, intend to do in it, plan to do in it……

But those plans can all be wiped out with one internal combustion engine gone dreadfully awry, one random pull of a trigger, one clumsy misstep under hazardous circumstances, or one rogue, malicious embolus breaking free and thereupon deciding to circulate within the most critical arteries of our bodies

Don’t go there…..

Don’t take that risk…..

Now is here

And tomorrow is a million dreams away

Tomorrow will ALWAYS be a million dreams away

In deference to this reality, embrace the present

Embrace it like there is no tomorrow

Like there is no tomorrow

Like today is the final day of your life

Because it may well be

Because for all we know and are capable of knowing, there will BE no tomorrow

Tomorrow is no more certain and concrete than one beat of a cartoonishly fragile heart.

No more certain and concrete than one small breath into hyper-delicate, cartoonishly thin lungs.

No more certain and concrete than one shiv jammed unmercifully into a cartoonishly blood-engorged liver.

No more certain and concrete than one freakish blood pressure eruption within the most Lilliputian vascular vessels of a cartoonishly dainty brain.

No more certain than ghostly fog rolling in overnight.

No more certain than a benevolent Supreme Being.

But now is here

And here is all I truly need

Here and now is all anybody truly needs.