The Past, The Present, The Future --- Living NOW - Al-Anon Family Group

wallsal55 · Senior Member

The Past, The Present, The Future --- Living NOW

Bettina · ~*Service Worker*~

Therein lies the key, if we can just remember, we can begin again at any moment, I find that amazing and try to live my life in this way. Its so simple. Luv, Bettina

maresie · ~*Service Worker*~

Well I think it takes practice to be in the now. What can I do now to feel better. How can I take care of myself. I'm great at taking care of other people.

Maresie.

DT1221 · Member

I am so greatful some days that this msg board is up to read and bring me back to me. I live each day trying to live in the moment and for the most part I do ok I think.... but lately I have been wondering for each day which i live for this moment trying to get past this moment living it the best I can in the moment with a good attitude and a hopeful thought. What about tomorrow? If i keep living right now and trying to make it right now for the best can I see myself living exactly this way in a year or 5 or 10. I hope the answer is no I will be in a better place. But will I be there? I know to live in each day is to do each day but sometimes living in that days seems for me to be a perpetual circle of denying the fact that although yes this day may have been ok or even good the overall picture is not. I am starting at times to slide into a depression of where my life has lead me and my fear of not knowing if I can do it alone w/ 2kids. I found a magnet i bought that says" IN ORDER TO SUCCEED WE MUST FIRST BELIVE THAT WE CAN" wow was then sent to my by my HP.

Thanks for listening to me babble but for now live for today in the moment and just getting by might not be enough for me. Any suggestions. and yes I go to F2F no sponsor hard time finding one I can truely relate to. weirdface

Love you all Sunshinedt

-- Edited by DT1221 at 11:01, 2008-07-11

Jean4444 · ~*Service Worker*~

One of the things that has occurred to me lately is that there is something or somethings that this single day has the potential to be best for. But sometimes I cannot know what that is unless I remain open to HP and HP's messages to me.

Today, unknown to me until I was doing it, was the greatest day for weeding the vegetable patch. It was super windy (so no bugs), hazy to cloudy, no rain, warm- had rained a lot the night before so the weeds came up easily, it was quiet, I was alone, the raspberries were ripe so I ate em all, some peas, too, etc. I was there for hours and I could be (I took the day off), so I stayed and stayed and it was really good.

I could not have planned that. Thank u HP- I took a day "off" and found the very best, most therapeutic thing in the world to do...that was also really beneficial to the household I am living in!

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