Make the most of every moment!

     This is something very few people do.  You will find those who have lost much in their lives doing this.  You will also find those who love deeply attending to every moment.  What is your relationship with this statement?  Do you make the most of every moment or bear through the work day or the tough relationship?  Perhaps your day is one constant distraction causing you to bounce off walls at the biding of others.  I don't know what is the deciding factor in your life.  Very few people I know have either made the most of every moment or abandoned the challenge of focusing on that which is important to them.  When we stop focusing on that which is unimportant, we will begin to back off and realign our lives.  Sometimes we are so overloaded with excess that we wouldn't be able to attend to every moment much less make the most of every moment.  Having a lot of personal knowledge of this phenomena I feel qualified to say that this is not an easy transition in anyone's life.  I have yet to meet any human that has been able to make the most of EVERY moment.  Some here or there but certainly not every moment. 
     We have several means of having a peaceful life.  Almost all of them are predicated on the intrusion of what we surround us with. It's easier to be at peace and make the most of every moment while we are alone with God and nature.  Put a Grisly Bear in the picture and the moment is gone and so are we!  We love to have life in a peaceful framed picture.  In fact, a lot of the population has at least one peaceful picture hanging in their homes.  This is by no accident.  We are a people who know what we would like to have as a life.  We are also a people who live complicated lives either by force or choice.  I'm sitting here typing this blog with both dogs sleeping on the floor near me.  No one else in the house is up or have been up since I got up at 4:30 AM.  There is no sound of traffic or storm and I don't feel anxious about anything.  This is as close to a situation where I'm able to have room to enjoy every moment.  Writing is one of those events where I can feel like I am fully engaging life. 
     As a people, we work to bring about those moments when we feel we can make the most of that time and enjoy the time as well.  Your hobby may be a distraction or something to command your attention.  This "purpose" of your hobby is not to engage every moment for good.  Often it's a time where we can put ourselves in another place where we don't have to deal with life.  Our "moment" is meant to make our time go by with the least amount of effort.  What your hobby is and how your address that hobby in your life can be for many different reasons.  Our hobby may help us to be alone and yet feel productive.  Our hobby may keep us from yet another argument with a spouse, neighbor, children or even our co-workers.  The opposite is also true.  We engage the moment with those people in order to avoid having to deal with your life.  If either of these situations fit your life, you are unable to make the most of every moment and life becomes difficult and unfulfilling. 
     In order for us to make the most of every moment; we need to be honest in evaluating what our current life looks like.  You may need someone to give you an outsiders observation in order to engage the truth.   This is the sticky point.  We then are left with two choices.  We can either change things in our life in order to have the moment or we can continue the pretense of how wonderful our lives are.  Regardless of your choice, you have the choice.  Own that choice!  Then if you really want a life to be one where you make the most of every moment; do it.  If you don't begin, you will never finish.  It's still your choice.