The Present Moment isn’t always good…

I will start off by saying that I am a huge advocate for mindfulness, meditation, and harnessing the present moment. It has done wonders for my life and I try to incorporate it into my life everyday. But, the present moment isn’t always good. I will focus on stressful work for this post.

It’s one thing if you enjoy your job, that can help you be in the present moment. It’s another thing if it causes you stress or pain. Work can be stressful or painful for a myriad of reasons. In these moments when the present moment isn’t good, it’s actually good to incorporate other strategies for getting through your day. Not that it isn’t good to still practice mindfulness in your down time in between difficult work.

Where I am going with this, is the retirement age. And how I see this as another reason that we need to get the retirement age as low as possible. Once people hit that age and have more control over their lives, they can then really harness the power of the present moment and better enjoy their lives. Which, doesn’t even necessarily mean you will stop working all together. But you may want to find a more comfortable job, work part time, turn a hobby into a job, or just turn to a life of hobbies or what have you in general.

Many spiritual gurus don’t necessarily have hard jobs that have lots of stressful present moments. They are already kinda living their “dream job” a bit and are more easily able to find the present moment more enjoyable a better portion of the time. I am not saying they don’t find issues in their life, but when they come to the present moment to find solace, the present moment is a place of peace. They aren’t trying to avoid the present moment, they are trying to live in it.

Hard work is necessary for Human survival though. We need to all put our time in and deal with and navigate a period of turmoil. But our goal should be to make that period as short as possible. Get what needs to be done out of the way, get retirement age low, and move on to better periods and phases of life.

But, I just wanted to say that the present moment isn’t always good. If it was, it would solve a lot of our problems. We would all whistle while we work hehe. But, the reality of life is that a lot of jobs can be stressful and make the present moment not very enjoyable or not enjoyable at all. Work is really one of our biggest enemies in this universe. It causes a lot of stress for people that do it, and it creates a lot of crime from people trying to avoid it, among other things. We should make it our goal to get the retirement age as low as possible while of course getting all the necessary work done first.