Tomorrow Never Comes

The future exists only in our present concept of it.

Future events do not exist. Our plans, hopes, fears, dreams, expectations and worries exist today as possibilities and probabilities. But they are thoughts and ideas. Not events. The future is purely theoretical. All we really have is now, today, the vast, spacious, spontaneous present.

Therefore, worrying about and fearing future events is a nonconstructive use of energy.

In the present we can see paths, directions, trajectories. And we can mentally follow them into their possible futures to see where they might lead. If they seem headed where we do not want to go, today we have the power to implement course corrections.

We are taught that planning, devising strategies for accomplishing goals, saving money, insuring our lives, homes, cars, health, are responsible actions.

Most of us are not taught to trust life spontaneously to lead us to our growth and evolution and fulfillment. We are not taught to abandon all worries and know we are safe and protected always.

We are well aware, however, that our best laid plans can be undone by a single unexpected event that changes everything.

We fear these unexpected events. But we can instead accept them as life's course corrections that lead us to deeper levels of fulfillment than our own planning would have. We can see these events as spontaneous adventures that take us to places we've never been.

Warning: Our beliefs create our reality. So we cannot stop planning and saving and insuring and behaving responsibly until we first unquestionably know that life always will support us and carry us onward to expansive, new adventures and experiences. Doing so can cause great discomfort and fear.

We are buoyant upon the river of life and we cannot sink and be drowned. But until we are certain of this, it is much less fearful to act responsibly within our beliefs. That is until that unforeseen event visits us.

When that happens, whether we feel ready or not, our belief in our buoyancy is given a full test.

I have taken this leap into trusting the safety of this deep river of life. Prematurely. Before I knew I was fully safe. And yet I survived. However full of fear and uncertainty I found myself.

A second time I took the leap. This time I was a wee bit more assured of my basic safety. I survived with a wee bit less fear.

It was the third time that I came to know I was buoyant and would stay afloat no matter where the rapids tossed me.

We are safe now. And now is all there is.

Worrying about the future is worrying about something that does not exist.

Tomorrow isn't coming.

We have today to do whatever we want. To change whatever we want.

Today we can abandon our worries and expectations and accept the spontaneous curves in the road that come our way.

Tomorrow is imaginary.

Today is real.

Today we have the power to do most anything.

      -----Cosmic Grandpa