Now

Let go of the past, for God’s sake!!!  Let go of it already!!!  It’s nothing more than yesterday’s news—LITERALLY!!!  Focus on what’s in front of you, not on what’s behind you!  The past is sand in the bottom of the hourglass.  It’s a ship that’s sailed.  It’s a used condom.  It’s a gnawed apple core shading towards brown in color.  It’s the extreme distal end of your digestive tract.  Who really gives a shit about those insipid, dated things anyway?  The present is unquestionably most important, the future—provided one is granted the divine luxury of entering that uncharted wilderness—is easily next most important on the spectrum of life, and the past?  Well, the past is not important at all.  A mound of useless refuse.  A nullity.  Nothing can be changed about the past, hence why should anyone find solace in constantly revisiting that vast wasteland which lies forlorn and irretrievable and receding in one’s rear-view mirror?  The answer is there is no reason.  The past is the province of professional historians, glory day enthusiasts, and Monday morning quarterbacks, but no one else has any real use for it.  Leave it behind where it belongs and set your sights on the present, for sure, but also on the future to a lesser extent.  Today matters; yesterday no longer does; tomorrow is purely a promissory note from the gods of destiny with no assurance that it will ever be cashed.  The moment.  Live for the moment.  Yes, live for the moment, for Christ’s sake, and only for the moment!  That is all you really have, both right now as you read this and then stretching into perpetuity too…..for as long (or short) as that grand illusion might last…..