Here Today

(From the Philosophical Files of Kevin J. Ward)

Do not be fooled.  Today is not the first day of the rest of your life.  It cannot be, for in today’s perspective, there is no “rest of your life”, there is just today. However, yesterday was truly the last day of what had been your life.
It is now gone.
It is now, in a very real sense, dead.

There is no future, for the future is just an idea and it has no existence. There is no experience of tomorrow, because tomorrow has no reality. When tomorrow comes, when it has reality, it is no longer tomorrow, but today. It is no longer your future, but your present. When tomorrow passes, it becomes your past.  It is then gone.  It is then dead. All you are, all you have ever been, is wrapped up into today.
Happiness.
Sorrow.
Joy.
Fear.
Everything.

You are you, here today.
There is no yesterday, for that is gone.
There is no tomorrow, for that has no reality.
There is you, here today.

Whether you like who you are or you do not, whether you are happy or you are not,
There is no one, and no time, to hold accountable.
There is no one, and no time, to blame.
There is only you, here today.

Release the baggage of yesterday.
Stop waiting for tomorrow.
Be you, here today.
Be happy.