Building a better now

It seems that my entire life everything has been preparation work for some sort of unknown future. All of it some sort of schooling, or work towards a place where I have the skills I need to do something else something grander. I think everyone feels like this like we work hard to be at some other place than where we are now. Or at least that's what society tells us. Then after all that time, we are dropped. So much build up so much work towards a goal, and then we drop.

It feels like we are seeds falling from one of those trees with the helicopter leaves. We make ourselves to head out as far as we can, then we let go and see where the wind takes us.

But the time comes and we hit the ground and I'm thinking that part of building a better tomorrow is to be a better now. It's not a stop and smell the roses thing. I don't think that it's about always enjoying what's around us (sometimes the flowers are brambles) but rather to work as if right now is really here rather than a starting point to somewhere else. It may be that but things like cleaning up at home make things better for now and the future. I just think that part of our work should be making now a better time and let the future surprise us at least a little.