What Comes Next

My daughter just had a birthday. That exact same day she announced she was almost another year older. We tried to explain that she just turned this age, so she isn’t almost anything but the age she already is.

In some sense, she’s right. There’s no way of putting that genie back in the bottle.

It’s a funny thing about human nature, though. We’re always looking for what comes next. What is here now isn’t enough.

We are only ever here now. Looking only to what may come leaves you missing out now.

I’m going to try and remember this when I look down to my phone that pulls me away from now.