![]() I waver somewhere between “one day” and “remember when.” I think that is where the majority of us live - in a liminal state - not quite brave enough to be alive in the present moment, but knowing it’s there. I have met only a few people who have learned to live in the here and now. I’m always meeting “one-dayers” who have their minds focused on future happiness or their congenial opposites, the “remember whens” who long for their past glory days. This kind of person has not been rare in my life. Who knows? This man may still convene hateful lunch meetings with the new round of staffers - regaling them with tales of his much-desired dream job somewhere out in his blissful “one day.” The co-worker who had been our ringleader, however, still, to this day, works at that radio station - along with the little Hitler whom he had painted as his sworn enemy. We had made it out of the hellhole and had lived to tell about it. Some years after I left this job another former co-worker got married and at his wedding reception all the former employees of this radio station sat in a circle talking about their separate experiences with this tiny despot of a man. My co-worker would convene lunch meetings where we would all vent our feelings about our boss and our lack of love for our jobs. We all longed for him to at best, find another job and another staff to torture, or at worst, finally irritate the big boss so much he’d get fired. The boss was, indeed, an intolerable little man - someone Hitler or Mao would admire for his totalitarian hold over his staff. None of us were particularly happy working at this station. There are days when I just can’t stand getting up to come here.” “One day, I’m going to find a different job and leave this place. (Thich Nhat Hahn, Interbeing: Fourteen Guidelines for Engaged Buddhism)Īt a small radio station where I worked nearly 20 years ago, a co-worker of mine constantly complained about his job. The peace we desire is not in some distant future, but it is something we can realize in the present moment. Only the present moment is real and available to us. ![]() Living in the present: Only the present moment is real
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