In the great words of Stephen King, "The world has moved on ..." 

This is more true today than it has ever been.  The world has always evolved at a rapid rate but in the last 50 years the world has changed more than it has in the last 500 and by the time this blog post is finished it will have changed again.  In a world that we constantly struggle to keep up in it is easy to get lost in the unimportant and the tomorrow.  "The unimportant" is obviously completely individualized but then again, the individual concept of the unimportant is what this post is all about.

Each person has their own idea of priorities in their lives but sometimes we get so wrapped up in them and what we are planning for later or tomorrow, it takes an outside source to snap you back into reality and shed light on what we should actually hold as important.  We see it everyday - while we are at the grocery store, while we sit in traffic, while we wait in line at a coffee shop.  Each day in our routine tasks of "getting things done" we become so focused on the task at hand that we as a people or maybe as a society lose sight of enjoying the present.

... Enjoying the present instead of always focusing on tomorrow, what a thought!  We get so immersed in our list of "to do's" that the present is simply forgotten.  I challenge you to do something; next time you are riding in an elevator, instead of staring at the digital readout of the floor you are passing, turn around and look at the people behind you (who are undoubtably staring at those same mind numbing digits) and say "hello".  Ask how their day is going, compliment them on their hair, shake their hand and introduce yourself ... any of it, just try. I promise you that you will experience something brand new at that instant and once you get over the awkward nervousness of what you just did you will walk away from the situation with air under your feet and a smile on your face.  I don't really know the reason for this (I'm sure some psychiatrist reading this will be able to answer that) but for whatever reason it is, it's a great feeling.

Maybe if we could all spend just a minute in our day enjoying RIGHT NOW, then we wouldn't miss so much of this high speed world we live in.