Samantha Anderson- The Now

At the end of my senior year of high school, I went down to Florida to visit my best friend. Since it was Florida, the beach was basically her back yard. Are days would be spent laying on the beach of chilling in the gulf’s waters. Specifically where she lived there were a ton of little bridges that had canal water below. We were driving to the beach one day, when we just pulled over on the bridge and decided to jump in. At that very moment my heart was petrified, however I knew an opportunity like this would not arrive again. Right as we jumped off there was that moment of “now.” Nothing else was happening, no other thoughts were racing through my mind, I was just in the air falling living in the “now.” It wasn’t until I hit the water and came back to the surface that I even realized what I had just done. I wonder is there any other way that you can create this moment other that bridge jumping, bungie jumping, or sky diving? Why is it only when you are in a state of free fall that you are in the “now” moment? Is it possible with discipline to train our minds to find that same feeling while at rest?