At this revolution of the Earth we look backwards and forwards.
We celebrate and lament the past and pledge and promise about the future.
But we must be clear in both of these, as they are different things and yet all the same. As none of it is real.
Yesterday is a memory, tomorrow a dream.
Only the Now counts.
In the turning of time we are always moving forward. We mark the moments with memories,
and tag those memories with numbers. But the numbers mean nothing. They
are a construct. What counts is what happened to you each moment of
your life, and then, even more importantly, what you did about what
happened, and then what happened because you did something.
This begins with our birth, as it is almost literally the seminal act of
our creation. It is something done to us. It is the one and only time
in our whole life wherein there is no prior trace of decision on our
part that has put us in a place our space.
From that moment on
the rest is our reaction to what has been done, and soon enough what we
do in the world into which we have been delivered.
What have
you done with that which has been done to you? What have you done to the
world? And what will you do now? As those things done to you have
already had their effect on you. Those things you have done have already
had or begun the ripple of their effect on the world. Neither of these
can you change. They are done.
What you can change is what happens now. And what you do next.
So what will it be?
What will You do Now?
RNT
