A path of unconventional roads has led to now. And now is never over; it continues to move and grow alongside me as I navigate the world around me. Now is  ever-changing and morphing—it brings me to realize things that I did not know ten minutes ago. Now is a time, a time that comes and goes, a time yet to be in my presence.

Before and soon have a certain weight to them, a weight that ties a person down to something that could be or something that already has been. These somethings are irrelevant to now, as now airily floats to you, effortlessly, angelically, in a sort of religious way. When now is missing, everything feels catastrophic, what could have been or what is yet to come.

My goal in life is to embrace now, live in the present, be open to the possibility that I cannot know everything until it happens, until I learn, until I figure it out. Now is not a puzzle I need to solve, or a problem I need strength to overcome; now is the moment where I am grounded to my surroundings, where everything is alright.

Embrace now, because now is something until it is not.