Living In The Present Is The Most Enlightening & Spiritual

We all know that one of the best traits of the human psyche, is planning and preparing themself for the future but why this is the case? We've been taught since our childhood days that planning and preparing yourself are really important in one's life, it's not even about the family telling to their children in fact when people go to school, college, and especially business school across the world, they all give the same message, but wait a minute what about those who never consider future as a part of life, all they have is present and saying this, that we live in the moment What is the use of thinking about a future? when you can live your life to its fullest in the what else you may think of ?. I firmly believe living in the moment is the best way to enjoy life as we can't enjoy the present by thinking future. Thinking about the future can be extremely stressful for most of us and this is one of the reasons, behind common problem people are facing known as "Depression" however living in the moment is completely opposite to it, as its stress-free and when you're stress and tension free you actually attuned to the right flow of their life and this can lead to the bright future.

Having said that, living in the future brings fear, most of us never accept the thing the way it is, which is the essential part of our life(acceptance). I myself have experienced that, constant endeavor to plan for the future sometimes, creates the feeling of non-acceptance of the present time. It means if your rejecting or not accepting your present you simply can not have a better future. "Good present leads to the great future"

On a flip, there is nothing wrong to think about the future but we should not only thinking, as it tells us to save the future means your goals, plans, and all, for instance, you got schoolwork, the project from an office, new strategy skills at workplace and so on these all things are required planing and we work on it in a right manner not carelessly but move on with well-balanced mind. I personally see there nothing wrong with it, but yes over-thinking and thinking about the future by not accepting your present is not good.

Even the holy scriptures across the world have always given us a message to live life to its fullest by living in the present as life never exists in the future it is right here now.

The entire human race is based on fear of the future, they are leaving the life behind and all the beautiful moments that it offers that once it has gone, hard to get it back. One of the strange things that happen we talk about the future is, that people always try to control things as the future has insecurities. There is a short story about "Gautam Buddhas", which is the great example for you to understand the importance of the "Present"

Once upon a time, he went to a village and there he begged some food for lunch. After reaching his place he ate the food and gave the remaining food to those who came to hear his discourse. He asked them to give the food to needy people as well. At that time, a person from the group suggested "Gautam Buddha" that he should preserve his food for the evening, when "Buddha" heard this, he said, "If I had worried about my next meal, I would have never left my home to preach people"

History and all those past-masters are the real examples in front of us who taught us the right way to live life with a great example, but the materialistic world has changed the way people think and react, everything we see and do connect us with the future, not with the present yet the reason of many problems that we have today in our life. We should follow those ascended souls who have taught us a lot about life as this is the only way to enlighten ourselves.