'Carpe Diem...'
'Look at this' Anadi exclaimed, holding a bottle of body oil up to show me... 'Look at the pressure in it, from the aeroplane...'
'When have we been on a plane?' I replied...
It seems yesterday is now distant history for me...!
'Oh yes...! Yesterday...'
I have generally found being where I am quite an easy state to be... And I created a lifestyle that kept me in that space and in the moment...
Working with people lends itself to being a hundred percent present; time doesn't exist in this arena for me... And running for mile after mile creates the same timelessness....
Especially once fit enough to run with a degree of effortlessness for a number of hours... Being in each mile means the ones already run disappear... And then there is just the step, and the next and the next...
There is only now.
As Eckhart Tolle says 'There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be'.
Most of us know this, and yet it is still all too easy to get invested in the past, and live it out over and over... Or become attached to planning or fearing the future... Which then limits the vast possibilities of what a today - clear of tension - might bring.
My lifestyle is different now, and it changes and moves, but my sense of the present moment is more profound that ever; the energy of 'Carpe Diem'.
This morning as we sat on our balcony overlooking the mountains, not sure what day of the week it was, Anadi quoted A.A Milne's conversation between Pooh Bear and Piglet...
'What day is it'?, asked Winnie the Pooh 'It's today', squeaked Piglet! 'My favourite day', said Pooh.
We had left our little house which nestles at the bottom of a very steep climb, and after about thirty minutes we arrived, high up on the mountainside, on the more open sandy paths and trails which meander and climb and wind around the mountains for miles and miles... With the pines rising up tall and still into the clear blue sky; the sun rising above them, building to her full intense strength as the day progresses....
My chest hurt a bit as we ran, and looking at my new polar watch, with all its multitude of information, it said we were at 1600metres altitude.... So, even though we are here, now, both Anadi's and my body asked that we take a little adjustment time to accommodate the change in country, climate and altitude... please!
