Presents of the Present
What are the presents of the present?
If you’re not finding them, keep looking. There are always presents of the present.
Many people are unhappy with the way at least one aspect of their lives are going. Many people are unhappy with the way every aspect of their lives is going.
Maybe you know some of these people. Maybe you are one of these people.
These people are worried about the future and haven’t made peace with the past. If they are this involved with the future or the past, they are not living in this moment. They cannot be fully present with the presents.
The present is the gift. Always.
I learned this lesson while in the early stages of stroke recovery. More accurately, I learned this lesson after doing the opposite during the early stages of stroke recovery.
My brain went boom. I felt unexpectedly stupid. My brain didn’t work the way it had always worked.
This was a new feeling for me, and I didn’t like it even a little bit. I’d spent years using my natural intelligence to propel me through life and do my best to care for my mother after her brain injury. My own brain was now unable to process simple functions like figuring out which foot goes on the brake and which foot goes on the gas pedal. I couldn’t make change at the grocery, I couldn’t even hold change in my hand, and I had no one to buy my food or run my errands. I had a dog who needed me to meet her basic needs. I thought I had to figure all this out and fast.
If I had embraced the joys of feeling stupid right away, I would have done myself a lot more good, and I would have moved through that stage of my recovery more quickly.
How can it be joyful to feel incompetent in one’s life?
I can answer this question as I set my recovery way back by doing too much brain work too early, too hard and too fast for too long.
How did it feel to embrace my stupidity? It was an adventure. I’d always been highly intelligent – gotten excellent grades, competed on Jeopardy!, been the go to person for many people in my life – and I now got to let go of all of that. My brain didn’t work for many of the most basic functions, so I had no brain intelligence to give.
It was fascinating to observe how it was to be a stupid version of me. It wasn’t bad. It wasn’t good. It was different.
I realized my heart knew many things my brain didn’t understand. We are quickly coming into a time during which the wisdom of the heart will prevail over the wisdom of the brain. If you don’t believe me, that’s fine. This year will, if you’re open to learning, change your mind and open your heart. The people who process life through their brains will have to learn what I learned. I learned this involuntarily. Turns out I was a little ahead of my time.
Yes, the money was very quickly disappearing. Yes, the future didn’t look bright. Yes, I didn’t have people nearby to run errands for me or help me care for myself. What did I have? I had what I needed in the moment. My needs were all being met and the future was still a ways off. I was fine.
I have learned that those of us who are in service to others are always cared for. Life has been very different for me than it had ever been before during the past nearly six years, I wasn’t cared for in the way I’d expected, but my basic needs are still being met in this moment.
These are just a few of the gifts available to all of us when we are present with the presents.
One thing life has taught me is that, when we are fully present, when we can embrace the gifts of the present moment, we create the avenue for our lives to begin to change.
Do you feel your life sucks? Embrace all of the presents. Find the gifts in the suck.
And then watch what happens.
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