It took me a while to realize:
I am not cosmically bound to 
who I think I was in the past–
a past which includes the words
you’ve just been reading

And the future? That’s only 
a concept–a potential for
things not yet made, but,
perhaps, hoped for

All we really have is 
the present, so why
worry about the
inaccessible past or the
unbuilt future?

I think the hippies had it right:

“Now, man! You gotta live in the now!”