The sky is cloudy.
Or rather, the sky is smoky because the mountains are burning too much.
I had no idea that the sky color would change so much when the mountains burned.
On days like this,
It is hard to get excited.
However, I realized that when the weather is not so good, I am helped a lot by the wonderful weather in California.
It is nice to have nice weather after all.
The environment in which you live is very important for survival.
Live in a place you like which is better for your health.
But sometimes it is not easy to live here, even if you want to live where you live now, because of money reasons such as rent, family problems, or visa problems if you are from another country.
In fact, I have recently been thinking that being in a place you love can be a battle against so many hardships.
Love, work, the house you live in, whatever that when you love something or someone, you will suffer more than when you don’t love it.
We suffer from the attachment that we cannot give up.
But that’s just because you’re not living in the moment.
When you want to let go of attachment, bring your thoughts back to the present.
You know, just the weather was overcast and I was feeling a little down, then fear would come in my mind.
For me, when I looked back on my day, I found myself feeling anxious about the future, vague about what I wanted to be, perhaps because of my attachment to what I wanted to be, and my thoughts were going to and from.
My thoughts were going this way and that way, and I was not able to focus on the present.
So, I thought about coming back to the here and now.
We don’t know what will happen in the future.
Wildfires could come up here and burn my house to the ground.
I might not be able to live here tomorrow, in the town I love.
Or I may suddenly lose everything.
If I spend all my time worrying about such uncertainties, I will not be able to enjoy the present.
When I am stuck on it then, I always chant to my brain, “Focus on now, now, now.”
In fact, even death feels unimportant when I live in the present.
I am anxious about death, I am anxious that the people I love will hate me, I am anxious about losing my place to live, I am anxious about failure in the future, I am anxious about losing money, etc.
Having attachments causes a lot of anxiety to run through our brains.
We can’t eliminate all of them.
But to think that “Now, now, now!” is a good idea.
In Zen, there is a term called 放下著 (hougejaku), which means to let go of attachment.
It tells us that if we let go, we can use our energy for other things.
But you may not know how to let go.
After a heartbreak, it is not so easy to forget someone you love or to let go of an attachment.
My own ideas on how to let go are that I believe that living simply in the present moment is the best way to let go of attachments and to enjoy life.
The important thing is to bring your thoughts to the present and focus on them.
Yesterday and tomorrow are not very important.
To think about how to live now,
Eventually, all of fear really doesn’t matter.
It’s more about living in the now.
I think it is much more important to live in the present than to chase too much after the past or future ideal self.
When I eat dinner with a friend while thinking about something, I don’t enjoy it at all.
Even if it is the last time I have dinner with them.
If you are feeling uneasy about meeting someone of the opposite sex in a casual coffee shop, you will miss the chance to have an enjoyable conversation with them. Or your life will end without even noticing the person.
The scenery changes when you live in the present.
You see the same place and people differently every day.
This awareness is the key to Cherish each and every single moment.
I believe that we can enrich our lives by making the most of the energy we have in the present moment.
I believe that this awareness will enrich our lives.
Thank you for reading.
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