Preparing yourself to live in the present isn't a Hollywood movie happily lived ever after moment. Bryan Adams isn't racing over to your place of personal growth with a power love ballad. Being aware of your "Now" is work. You have to exercise the knowledge every day several times a day. The existence of an existent now puts your head and heart in the center of something you have the ability to control or at least the mindset to build a bridge. Do we truly remember our past or are we holding onto partial story lines reconstructed to better serve our acceptance of a situation? The same can be said about always planning the future before it arrives. Participating with the existence of an existent now isn't the answer to all things gone wrong. You can't stop a hurricane from crashing onto a shore. You can forecast it! Depressions, darkness, low moments and everything else that you've labeled a total buzz kill don't suddenly appear on the menu. Awareness of how your body reacts to each emotion is no different then seeing a cloud take shape in the sky. Does it make you an introvert to be so keen to your senses? No. It actually works the opposite way. Your focused atmosphere on keeping level is a gift to those nearest your touch. The next time your boss torches your path with too much expectation think about the existence of an existent now. The situation is right there in front of you. Deal with it. The moment you tuck it away for later play is reason to feel off balance the rest of the day. Do bosses change their ways and minds after the command has been delivered? No. Now you hold a lesson to one day teach when you've been chosen to lead. Which totally shoves my thought pattern into a future we can't control because the average person doesn't want to be a decision maker. Therefore the existence of an existent now shape shifts back into a gloomy environment of no reason to keep reaching forward. No. You're now aware of how you act and react and it gives you light when in the past you pointed your finger at other things for those roughed up feathers. Being aware of where you presently stand is a very positive tool on your journey into the arms of brilliant success.