Lessons...

The lesson you are supposed to learn but didn't. Not because you couldn't but because you were too tired to actually listen.

It bugs you and bugs you until you force yourself to go back through the moments of the day step by step.

You enlist the help of someone else in your role down memory lane, but the message still seems to evade you.

Maybe you weren't meant to get it this time, it will come back around because you're positive you didn't learn the first time around. Or did you and you are just trying to out the words to the lesson?

Whatever the case, obsessing over it won't bring it back any sooner. It will just keep being this fleeting moment that you are trying to grasp. No longer focusing on the present, the now. Because you have out all of your attention on that one past moment.

That moment is gone, the only thing that matters is the now. So why become so obsessed with something that happened in the past? Why spend so much time trying to figure out who, what, where, when and how. When you can focus on the things right here in this moment that need your attention.

Like the cookies you put in the oven, the photos your editing, the conversation you're having.

I love how life is a circle, and the questions you ask are soon answered by that very same circle. And so I will savor the taste of the oatmeal raisin cookies, I will complete my editing process of the photos and I will provide my full attention to the person who has requested my presence in this conversation...

The lesson you are supposed to learn, because it keeps making a circle.