Getting In the Moment

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. -- Henry David Thoreau

My world right now is filled with doubts, stress, and hope.  Just like Pandora's box, the most important of these is hope.  It was hard to watch two friends DNF at IM Mount Tremblant last weekend.  I am not them.  They are not me.  Their lives have been very different in the last 6 months than mine.  But it is still something that sticks in a craw in the back of my brain.  But I can't be looking backwards right now.

I also can't be looking too far forward.  Yes, I am getting my bags packed.  Cool - and dorky - no?

I am getting my family prepped.  I am getting my head around the next few days.  But the bottom line is that between now and midnight on Sunday, I need to be present in the moment.  I need to be swimming during the swim, biking during the bike, and running (and walking) during the run.  I have to live in the moment.  Enjoy the day.  Make the most out of my experience.  There will only ever be one first IM race.  I hope to hell that's right, because obviously a lot of the nerves that have plagued me for the last month have been related to it being my first and not truly knowing what to expect.  There's only so much that books, webpages, FB threads, and friends can tell you.  The rest will come in the moment.  And this song pretty much says it...Jason Mraz, Living in the Moment.

If this life is one act 
Why do we lay all these traps 
We put them right in our path 
When we just wanna be free 

I will not waste my days 
Making up all kinds of ways 
To worry about some things 
That will not happen to me 

So I just let go of what I know I don't know 
And I know I'll only do this by 
Living in the moment 
Living our life 
Easy and breezy 
With peace in my mind 
With peace in my heart
Peace in my soul 
Wherever I'm going, I'm already home 
Living in the moment 

I'm letting myself off the hook for things I've done 
I let my past go past 
And now I'm having more fun 
I'm letting go of the thoughts 
That do not make me strong 
And I believe this way can be the same for everyone 

And if I fall asleep 
I know you'll be the one who'll always remind me 
To live in the moment 
To live my life 
Easy and breezy 
With peace in my mind 
I got peace in my heart 
Got peace in my soul 
Wherever I'm going, I'm already home 

I can't walk through life facing backwards 
I have tried 
I tried more than once to just make sure 
And I was denied the future I'd been searching for 
But I spun around and hurt no more 
By living in the moment 
Living my life 
Easy and breezy 
With peace in my mind 
I got peace in my heart 
Got peace in my soul 
Wherever I'm going, I'm already home 

I'm living in the moment 
I'm living my life 
Just taking it easy 
With peace in my mind 
I got peace in my heart 
I got peace in my soul 
Oh, wherever I'm going, I'm already home 
I'm living in the moment 
I'm living my life 
Oh, easy and breezy 
With peace in my mind 
I got peace in my heart 
I got peace in my soul 
Oh, wherever I'm going, I'm already home 
I'm living in the moment