I was out in the yard the other day, tending my butterfly garden and I happened to notice one of the dozens of butterflies looked like it had been mauled by something. In spite of its battered condition, that butterfly was flitting about, going from flower to flower and occasionally ‘interacting’ with other butterflies.
That butterfly seemed to be enjoying itself, living in the moment and loving life. In no way did that butterfly act as if it was less than perfect in form.
Now you could say that butterflies' have butterfly brains and it probably didn’t know or couldn’t process that sort of information but you can see the same sort of thing everywhere in nature if you just take a look. An example of this for me, was when I noticed two of the local feral kittens playing with each other; one of them was obviously injured-it looked as if something had tried to take the poor things head off. A cat may not have a brain that is as advanced as the human brain however cats do express feelings. One might have expected this one to be displaying feelings of fear, pain and/or ‘depression’ but no, this little guy was happy living in the moment. Happy to have the opportunity to play and cavort. Whatever happened happened, and the kitten could stay in that moment or move forward into a better moment and that is what it did. Just about everything in nature is happy in the moment, treasuring every second of life, knowing that tomorrow might not come and enjoying what is right here right now. How about you? Are you happy in this moment?
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