Living in the moment

It's May 20, 2010 4:40AM now and I'm at the office. I'm at my 22nd waking hour. I'm bored and definitely sleepy.

I've been reading thru a book called Don't Sweat the Small Stuff. I've just finished a chapter, if you consider 3 pages a chapter, called living in the present moment. I guess, the bottom line of this point is to embrace the present. Live on and in what is happening now. Don't miss out on life. Carpe diem.

I have recently been in such a moment where I had to choose to live in the present moment or not. I could let all my worries for the future stop me from doing what I wanted. Past experiences wanted to paralyze me from moving forward. All sorts of dire consequences flooded my mind and made my knees shiver. The black and white of "righteousness" was tearing me apart. Thoughts of a "better" way to proceed leading to a "better" result enticed me.

Nevertheless, I don't even remember considering all these. I plunged head first and tried to live in the moment. That moment is probably the best of my life. Never have I felt so alive than that moment. A moment, so fleeting but so real and so precious, that I will treasure and will forever remember.

After living in the moment, what happens when or after the moment has passed? Should we allow reasoning, logic, and rationality to override the decisions we made while living in the moment? Should we again subject ourselves to the judgement of perceived norms?

Or can we go on and stay in the moment forever? Oh! What I would give for that.. !