I wonder, if we would learn to live in present. Most of the people have no pain in present moment, still they are not happy. Once I met a gentleman, who was suffering from depression and the reason went 20 years back. When he married against his parents choice, for 2 months they did not talk to him. He was holding this in his heart for past 20 years and was going through depression because of the same. He did not look at the fact that they are a happy family for past 20 years. Its not one odd case, if we look back and analyze our own life, we would realize that we keep repeating one bad experience again and again in our heart and we keep feeling bad. If someone had said upsetting words in past, we keep thinking of same many a times and keep hurting ourselves. However, in a day, if 100 things have happened and only one bad thing has happened, we do not look at rest of those 99 things, we keep focussing on one bad thing and live in that pain. In life also, if we look closely, there are few amazing facts:
1. Difficult times are shorter than the happier times
2. People who love us are more in number than people who do not love us
3. We have been happier for more number of years than the years we have struggled
So it depends on us that on what we want to focus. Same way, we worry too much about future. What if my son does not get admission in a good college, does not matter if he is just 5 years old right now. What if he chooses a girl of his choice and many things like that. However, the truth is, you are only suffering because you are not living in present. Once you would start living in present, you would always be happy as future is being created by you right now. Every moment is creating a next moment.
