The Land of What If.

May 2, 2017
Day 214

     The past few days, I've been making a conscious effort to live in the present. The thing about anxiety is that you're either living in fear of the past or fear of the future. Anxiety makes you miss the now. You skip over it by wasting time in the land of what if. Anxiety taunts me by saying things like, "But...what if it happens?" I have to force myself to focus on the right now. And when I focus on the right now, I notice so many things that I would have missed if I was worrying and spinning around in circles in the land of what if. Things like:

Trees. One should really stop and examine the trees every day. They are so marvelous. So beautifully made. So intricately detailed.

The sky. It is simply glorious. Especially today's sky. The blue of it was so brilliant that it almost looked purple.

The people around us. Our family. Our friends. Our pets. It really is a wonderful thing to have people and animals to call our own.

Hugs and kisses. Such simple gestures for a grand thing such as love.

Time. We have time to spend.

Words. We have words to write. We have words to read. We have words to speak.

Thankful for trips out of the land of what if. I'm hoping to make my residence in the land of now.