The here, the now

I spoke with my younger sister today, and as usual, she had a wonderful thought for a Sunday afternoon (obviously paraphrased):

There is no need to stew over who we might become, what we might do, and where we might go in the minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years ahead. What we have at the present is more than enough to sustain us. The moment in which we live is the most important one.

These are especially timely words, both for those who ponder their next steps -- all you re-visiters out there, persons in flux within their ongoing schooling (e.g. transition to PhD phase), and everyone else, wherever they find themselves -- and those of us attempting to extract meaning and peace in the present. It truly is all about the here, and the now. Life pulses along.