On my end table, next to the couch sits this reminder for me.  I look at it often.  

I think about how easy it is to forget to do just that.  To live.  I admit. . . it’s so easy to let the days slip by without making them meaningful.  When things get tough, I’m frustrated and tired, sometimes I wish the day away.  Looking forward to bedtime, to the weekend, to the summer.  Living in the moment is hard when you are just speaking of ordinary moments.  Keeping my thoughts in the here and now and the how can we spend this day, this one right now so that I look back on it and think that we lived instead of just existed.  

Somedays it’s harder than others.  I’m sure you know the feeling. . . 

Other days it finds it’s place naturally without much effort.  

But always it’s a choice.  So today, make the choice.  Live.