Life Isn't Moving Too Fast. You're Just Never Here For It.

2 weeks ago

Human beings have a remarkable talent for missing the moment they will later call "the good old days." Life doesn't feel fast while you're living it. Only in memory does it become astonishing. We spend so much time mentally leaving the present — dwelling on yesterday, rehearsing tomorrow — that we are surprised when the present leaves without us. We confuse movement with meaning. We keep chasing a finish line that keeps moving. But here is the thing: the strange speed belongs to the story. Not to the awareness watching the story. You are the self-aware reality, the ground of all being — and that has never moved at all. Perhaps life is not a journey from past to future. Perhaps it is an endless parade of moments appearing and disappearing before something that itself never moves. Follo