Nostalgic for Now

"One day you will be nostalgic for now"
I had this lovely quote tattooed on my right thigh for my birthday. Me, a whole 23 years on this planet now...just a baby in the scheme of things...doing the best I can, like everyone, I guess.
I have been doing a lot of thinking about this new tattoo because it really says what I've been feeling in my gut is the theme of my young life. It is this moment. There is no day but today. Tomorrow is a dream. Yesterday is a memory. Today, right now, now is my life. Now is your life. I imagine this rolling blink of time, bright like a star, and beautiful like an invitation. This quote invites me to come into this moment and really Be, really live in it, really become myself in the present instead of wishing for the past or grabbing for the future. What would I do now if I was not afraid? Who would I be? I'm looking down at my leg now, at the swirls of words in pink and purple, and I am reminded to savor this moment. And I guess I am praying for myself and for all of us--this "foolish school of fish on wheels" that we are--praying that we all give ourselves permission to exist in the now in peace and honesty and love and growth and light...