I'm having a good one

I hear that phrase a lot. “Have a good one.” I can be in the grocery store buying dinner and as I’m leaving I hear, “Have a good one.”

I’m leaving work and as I say good bye to my co worker, I hear back, “Have a good one.”

But, I’m having a good one right now. Did you miss that?

This moment has a purpose. It may not be later on when I taste that delicious dinner I’ve been looking forward to cooking. I'll get there when I get there.

It sure isn’t after I leave work, because at the moment I’m trying to connect to my co worker by saying goodbye. Instead I get, "Have a good one."

What’s next? Imagine, you just got married, you were fully engulfed in the moment staring deeply into your spouses' eyes. You say, I do, and one of the guests tells you they are leaving so, “Have a good one.”

Hello? What are we doing right now?

If I don’t fully grasp this moment and appreciate it fully, how can I possibly have a good one in the next?

Let’s just skip over life and jump over to the good one. How’s that feel after being shut down for nearly a year? Preferably I would rather feel the full effects of now.

Now is all we have.

Not yesterday, Not tomorrow, but now, is the good one. It’s your good one, and it's a great place to be. Because, it's not about where you're going to go, or what you're going to do, that has its own special place in the moment too, when it happens. Now, is the gift. It's the good one.

Patricia Huff, Meditation Massage Practitioner.