We force us into wait-queue when we start knowing about this world. When we are in the primary school we want grow fast so that we can learn bi-cycle... when we start using bi-cycle, we feel bad when our seniors are coming in bike... we want to grow much faster so that we can ride bike.. When we are higher secondary days, we want our mustache to grow in our face... We want to get into good college.. Waiting for good campus selection... Waiting for onsite assignment.. Waiting for good life-partner... Waiting for own house... waiting for best car... waiting for promotion and pay hike... waiting for children to grow and settle.... waiting... waiting... waiting… for something that is not with us... Have we ever lived 100% for present moment... how many us of given 100% concentration when we eat food.. How many times we realized what we are eating and how many times counted number of times food was chewed... How many times we heard the sound of our own heart-beat… We are either thinking about the past or dreaming about future... never given attention to the present... either we think about the past analyze why it happened, we should have done this way or that way... or think about how it is going to be after 5 years
Yoga helped me to realize this in my life... I just realized that there is something called present that is a real life... all others are illusion… but still I spend my 99.99% of my life with either past or future... nowadays sometime I realize that is not real life..
To know more about this… Read a book called Power of Now
