The Power of Now

I've never read a book so closely and carefully, from what I remember. I guess I can't say that "The Power of Now" is life-changing, since I do not know the exact and universal definition of "life-changing", yet this book did change my perspective of life. Like most other readers, I was extremely skeptical about the content of this book. I thought it would be another book that sounds convincing and useful, but is practically theoretical and pretty much inapplicable to my current state of life. Yet, the book is so straight-forward and conveys a message that is identical to the title-- The Power of Now.

It is so difficult to ignore the past and the future, yet when we really think about it, the past and the future has no impact on our exact moment of "now". The most current state of now. Even if we're upset from some incident that happened an hour ago, so what? It is not now, so we should no longer feel the negativity. Even if we are worrying about some possible outcome, that has to do with the future, something that we cannot control. So why worry? Why stress? Why care about time if you think about life as a finite set of  pictures? Why cry about people leaving, if they were once so close to you? That is enough! Once you are together, that moment is eternal. No one can take away what happened already, as no one can control the future.

When I'm feeling down, I just remind myself of "The Power of Now".