A Quiet, Beautiful Start

Good morning.
It’s 6:30 a.m., and I’ve just stepped out for a walk. It’s still dark, surprisingly milky and foggy, with a deep calm blanketing everything. Birds are chirping in the background—nonstop, as if in conversation.

The moon is in its last crescent stage, soon to disappear, fading gently with the dawn. The neighborhood is mostly asleep. A few joggers and walkers pass by. The road gets the occasional car.

There’s something about mornings—a charm you don’t find during the rest of the day. That moment when light begins to break through the dark—if you’re lucky enough to witness it—it’s truly magical.

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Nature Lives in the Present

The birds are already out, fully present, fully alive. They’re not worried about yesterday, nor concerned about tomorrow. For them, today is the day—to search, to struggle, to live.

It made me think: why can’t we be like them?
Why are we, as humans, so tangled up in what’s behind or what’s ahead?

We have this mental faculty to reminisce about the past and imagine the future—but was that gift meant to take us out of the present?

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Natural Laws Apply to All of Us

Nature doesn’t make exceptions.
If the laws of nature apply to animals, they apply to us too. Yes, we’ve been given a larger prefrontal cortex, and we can plan, analyze, and remember—but that doesn't mean the rules of existence are different for us.

All creatures live by the present.
Even in the face of pain or loss—like a mother animal watching her baby fall prey to a predator—they move on. There may be mourning, but it’s short. Life continues.

Why, then, do we dwell for years? Why do we let the past haunt us or the future paralyze us?
If we’re part of the same natural order, then we, too, should anchor ourselves in the now.