STUCK IN PRESENT

MANY PEOPLE MAY BE STUCK IN THE STATE OF "ANTICIPATION". NO, IT'S NOT A MIDWEST PROVINCE IN CANADA, IT'S A STATE OF MIND. THIS IS WHERE YOU ARE LIVING SO MUCH IN THE FUTURE, YOU FORGET TO GET INVOLVED IN THE PRESENT. BE CAREFUL DOING THAT CAUSE YOU COULD BE MESSING UP YOUR FUTURE PAST.

REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE IN H.S., AND YOU COULDN'T WAIT TO GRADUATE, SO YOU COULD GO OFF TO COLLEGE AND DO ALL THE THINGS YOU WANTED TO DO, AND COULDN'T DO IN H.S.. WELL, I BET YOU MISS HIGH SCHOOL LIFE EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE. DON'T YOU?

I GUARANTEE THERE ARE BORING THINGS YOU WILL DO THIS WEEK, THAT SOMEDAY YOU WILL MISS DOING. MAYBE IT WILL BE A PERSON, PLACE, THING YOU DID. BUT YOU WILL SOMEDAY MISS IT. TOM USED TO DO THE SAME THING WHEN HE WAS ACTIVE DUTY AIR FORCE. HE COULDN'T WAIT TO GET OUT, SO HE COULD DO WHAT HE WANTED TO DO IN HIS FUTURE. NOW THAT HE'S OUT, HE OFTEN THINKS BACK TO THE GOOD TIMES HE HAD, AND THE GREAT FRIENDS HE HAD.

BE CAREFUL NOT TO GET LOCKED UP IN THE PAST EITHER. SOME PEOPLE LIVE THEIR LIVES IN THE PAST. SOMETIMES THE PAST THEY ARE LIVING IN, ISN'T EVEN THERE OWN PAST. IT'S SOMEBODY ELSES PAST. I'M GETTING OFF THE SUBJECT. THOSE PEOPLE ARE JUST WACKED OUT.

ANYWAY, THE OTHER NIGHT TOM WAS SITTING ON THE COUCH, WATCHING "WHEEL OF FORTUNE" WITH HIS TWO-YEAR OLD MATT(MATT'S FAVORITE SHOW - HE LOVES LETTERS). TOM STARTED TO WANDER BACK IN TIME TO THE "GOOD OLD DAYS". THEN IT CLICKED. TOM LOOKED OVER AT MATT. MATT WAS SITTING, SNUGGLED INTO TO TOM'S SIDE, ALL CONTENT. MATT HAD HIS THUMB IN HIS MOUTH. HE WAS HOLDING HIS BLANKET(HE CALLS IT HIS "BEEGOCK"), JUST WATCHING THE LETTERS TURN. TOM THEN THOUGHT, "MAN THIS LITTLE BUGGER LOVES ME NO MATTER WHAT"... AND HE WASN'T EVEN PART OF MY "GOOD OLD DAYS". THESE ARE MY "GOOD OLD DAYS", CAUSE SOMEDAY MATT'S GONNA GROW UP AND THIS GREAT LITTLE MOMENT WILL BE LOST. I BETTER SUCK THIS GOOD FEELING UP THE BEST I CAN. TOM THEN BECAME A BIT SAD, THINKING THAT LITTLE MATT WAS GONNA GROW UP ON HIM... BUT THEN TOM THOUGHT, "I WILL ALWAYS HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SNUGGLE WITH SOMEBODY" :)

I KNOW YOU'RE THINKING, "I'M NOT MARRIED AND I DON'T HAVE A LITTLE BUGGER TO SNUGGLE WITH"

JUST THINK BACK TO THE BEGINNING OF THIS STORY. WE ALL WASTE PART OF OUR PRESENT. THAT KIND OF GIVES US A BIT OF A SCREWED UP PAST. BUT WOULDN'T IT BE NICE TO SECURE A NICE FUTURE, BY NOT WASTING OUR PRESENT.