Sometimes, we engage in things which we eventually outgrow. Our numerous interactions and activities from past, may appear in retrospect, to have been futile, mere distractions from our present direction in life. We may have regrets, that much time was wasted in our lives.

We were born vulnerable, impressionable, entirely without our choice. Dropping into a random family, inheriting its culture, values and circumstances, we had no say in any of it.

Conditioned by influences around us, we floundered through life, adjusting, coping, adapting, learning with trial and error, we continued to evolve and mature, growing and changing in our own unique way.

The older we get, the deeper we find ourselves in our understanding. Looking back, we may feel amazed and surprised, by how our lives have eventually turned out.

With passing age, we also see much misery, confusion and struggles, which we have already left behind us. We realize, that learning from everything has ultimately brought us here, now.

There may be challenges ahead and our journey occasionally turbulent, but from experience we know, that all storms eventually recede. We often manage to sail smoothly, while admiring our view.

In life, we never arrive at a final destination, we are never flawless as a person, or a personality. We cannot be!

But each experience, from every moment of life, contributes to our journey. In the ocean of ignorance, we try our best to stay afloat on the raft of our inherent and acquired wisdom, which only gets stronger with maturity.

Our journey is about learning to accept  things just as they are, until we find peace and contentment in life, with everything as it is.

This understanding is simple and natural, but we have lost it, due to our complex human conditioning. We often try to improve our situation, but if it cannot be changed, wisdom is in seeing this, accepting, then moving on.

We know we are on the right course, when we begin to recognize, that we are exactly where we need to be, in each moment of life.

We appreciate that this here, is exactly where we need to be right now. But, at the same time, we also recognize, that we can always only be at the right place!

Wherever we find ourselves, is where we need to be, in that moment. The value of each lived moment in our lives, comes from our presence in that moment.

We realize, that no time can ever be wasted, because there cannot be a moment in our life, when we are not! We are always present here-now, in each moment of our life.

Life includes many significant experiences, and those, which appear to be irrelevant- random trivial things, judged and rejected, as wasted time.

We may not seem to be consciously ‘learning’ from every experience that we have, but a part of us is observing and witnessing our experience in each moment. We are constantly gaining wisdom from it.

This wisdom grows in subtle ways, we may not see this obviously happening, or even realize, but everything we experience, affects our thinking, feeling and attitude.

The chain of causes and effects is formed over time, and not a single moment in this link, is ever wasted.

When we live our routine life, indulging in mundane activities, or repeating same old mistakes, we may feel we are wasting precious time. But each lived moment adds some value, to our life experience.

We may need to repeat something detrimental, many times, before we are convinced of its futility, to finally let it go and move on. We repeat as long as it takes, to hit the required level of frustration, to force our escape out of its spiralling vortex.

Each such instance adds to our irritation, gathering momentum, which eventually helps us detach and finally be free from it. Are those repetitions wasted time?

Each moment’s true value, is measured in it’s here-now. Whenever wherever we are, whatever is happening then and there, is relevant at that specific moment.

Each past experience was a stepping stone, which fulfilled some need for us in that moment. By adding, removing or altering something, it also helped shape our present, to be whatever it is, here now.

Every experience, from each moment, of our whole past, converges here, to give rise to this present moment now.

This present moment of here now, confers the true essence to every lived moment, from our entire past! This realization, pulls the timeline of our past and future into perspective, by merging every moment’s ultimate true value, with our this immediate present!

All that remains, is to see and appreciate this moment, for what it is. There can never be any wasted time, in our timeless journey, from one here now to the next!