11/9/17 Now Is The Only Place We Exist?

    I have Tumbler on my phone for no other reason than girls show themselves fully nude on there and nobody seems to be crying about it.  While looking through there, I also found somebody or groups of somebodies posting quotes, some lame, but some thought provoking.  Recently, I read one of those that stopped me in my tracks and made me sit back and think for a minute.  The idea of tomorrow is just an abstract, it doesn't really exist.  The same thing then happens with yesterday.  It is something we can talk about having experienced it, but we can't go back to yesterday and repeat the actions, except in thoughts and dreams.
    We can hope tomorrow shows up and meets our sometimes delusional expectations, but nothing is a given.   While we are at it, an abstract is existing in thought or as an idea, but not having a physical or concrete existence.  Another way to look at tomorrow is the thing that happens in 24 hours.  We don't even have complete control of later on, which could be a couple minutes to a couple hours away.  The only time we can be sure about is now.  Now is where the real magic of life happens.  Now is when miracles can happen, where we win or we lose whether we gave it 100% or not.
    When I pick up Javelina (he doesn't care for Chubs anymore), the best question I can ask him is "How was your day?"  Because we are all individuals, at some point, we all have to trek through part of the day independently.  We hope the teachers are there to guide and that the students are becoming ever more aware to make correct decisions in line with what their parents would do, but because we all have separate moments of "now", we have to just go forward and be in the moment.  Most of the time, luckily, "how was your day?" is met with a "good", indicating nothing traumatic happened.  If he was confused by something, then it becomes a teachable moment.
    Weekends are supposed to be special because it is when we can spend quality "now" time together.  Some people still waste it, choosing to disappear to things that entertain them, nevermind the kids, but we all make our own decisions.  Since my overtime has become non-existent, I try to be around for my boys all the time.
    If I can say anything to this, don't get in a state of constant planning for the future, remember to live now.  Mistakes sometimes happen, don't delve to the past trying to reenact it too much and wish what might have been.  While you are doing that, more Now is slipping through your finite timeframe.  Live.  Now!