Everything Is Only An Experience (A Poem)

Have you ever stopped to consider whether you can fully embrace and appreciate the challenges, triumphs, breakdowns, breakthroughs, and liberations that each moment brings? Every moment, no matter how ordinary or extraordinary, offers us the opportunity for beauty, understanding, transformation, change, celebration, and gratitude.

It is up to us to seize these opportunities and make the most of them. By being present in the moment and relishing in the temporary experience of life, we can find deeper meaning and connection in our daily lives. This poem is an invitation to the present moment of your life.

Transcript

Everything is only an experience and each experience is unique.

No experience that we ever have will repeat itself exactly as it is.

This moment,

Right now,

In all its glory and all its beauty and even in all its pain is temporary.

As the sages of old have said,

This too shall pass.

So breathe and bring your focus,

Bring your presence,

Bring your attention to this very moment.

Experience the sensuality of the sounds,

The sights,

The smells,

The taste,

The touch of this moment.

Do not rush to be anywhere else.

Be here,

Now.

Be here,

Now.

Noticing this moment is a once in a lifetime moment.

Your life is a once in a lifetime life.

How we spend each moment is what matters.

And when we focus and long for something to happen that is not here in this moment,

We poison and taint our experience of the now.

We hold within us feelings of longing and desire,

Resentment,

Disappointment,

Dissatisfaction,

When really in this moment there is so much opportunity for joy,

For bliss,

For pleasure,

For peace,

For connection.

Listen to the sounds that you can hear.

Perhaps a car in the distance,

The sounds of nature,

Rain tapping on your roof,

Perhaps a bird or a cricket,

Perhaps the wind,

Perhaps your breath or the breath of a loved one,

Whether a furry friend or a family member or a lover.

Pay attention to the breath that you can hear in this moment.

And if you listen really deeply,

You might be able to hear your own heartbeat.

All of this is an experience,

A temporary,

Fleeting experience.

Can we relish in it?

Can we lap it up?

Can we suck the moment in?

From the bones of this experience,

Can we be present to the challenges and to the triumphs,

To the breakdowns,

To the breakthroughs,

To the liberations present in each moment?

Because only now is where we ever exist,

Where you ever exist,

Where I ever exist.

The rest is in the mind,

Like watching a movie,

Fast-forwarding,

Rewinding,

Replaying.

But we can only really experience our lives playing now,

Now,

Now.

And in every moment,

There's an opportunity for beauty,

For understanding,

For transformation,

For change,

For celebration,

For gratitude.

How do you choose to live your life?

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