Living in the Present

Posted April 23, 2008

I woke up this morning and walked out onto the patio and took a long deep breath of fresh air. The sun was coming up, the grass is turning green and the long cold winter is finally behind us. The smell of spring and new life is in the air.

Five years ago I entered a long term rehabilitation program; my life was a mess and I never though it possible that years later I would be happy and healthy or even still alive.

Today I am a productive and active part of society, the long term program that I went through taught me how to handle life. It taught me how to live in the present and not get lost in my past. It taught me that no matter what I had done in my past it did not have to control what I would do in the future. I owe my life to that program and to the caring people that stuck by me through those horrible years of addiction.

The past is history, the future is a mystery. Living in the moment is a gift; that’s why they call it the “present”.

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