Live the Present

My Wasted Life
Manuel Nivia
(Based on ''Rising Five - Norman Nicholson'')

Everyday I see people rushing, people wanting things to be when they want them, people wanting to become forgetting about being. Oh, what a reflection of my own wasted life. This brings me a quick memory of myself. I always dreamed of becoming, always becoming.
As a kid I always wanted more, wanted to be taller than my mates, wanted to be older... older than my mates which unfortunately wouldn't always happen. I longed for power, knowledge, strength and wanted them immediately. I always thought about the achievements of others or what others were or the positions they had forgetting about who I was. I always thought about who I could be or where I could get and forgot where I was. Always looking forward, to what is to come, to what is to come...
Everything seemed so slow, nothing really moved or got farther, and when I got there I was already dreaming of something else, something to come... Reminds me that I wanted a girlfriend and failures did not take the dream away, but when I got it I was already looking towards something bigger, which brought me down again to the floor.
I finished school, finished college, found a job then retired. I achieved what I desired. But now I think it's all a waste, because I always worried about becoming and forgot the meaning of life... It's all about being. For there will always be a future but only once a present.