that's why I let the thoughts rain on my like the raindrops

By Mila Zinkova , via Wikimedia Commons

There are times in my life when I'm sitting in my living room and think like this to myself. The thoughts sometimes travel far into the future, I can hardly follow them and sometimes they just stay here with me sitting on the sofa. Then we are one, my thoughts and me. Today I think of today, tomorrow and about my next trip. They rotate rapidly in a circle and go back and forth and barely stay in front of me, they don’t let me follow them. They want to confuse me. As they say, the brain can’t think of several things simultaneously, it will forget one or the other thing. So it's for me. I hardly know a wonderful idea and begin to make plans, the very next thought will run through the door and my beautiful plan is all gone. That’s why I let the thoughts rain down on me like the raindrops, which knock on the window. Dak dak dak. The drops gathering into a small trickle and flowing down the window and finally my brain can pack a thought.

Today I know that I can’t know what tomorrow will bring. I only know that I must enjoy today. Capturing the moment, although this moment, this now, is actually in the past, because we really live in perpetual past, since the brain needs three seconds to process information. Amazingly, how the here and now is a constant past and we can’t experience and learn the moment, the now.

love, Aylena