How Libraries Help Me Live More In The Moment

I've caught myself feeling pretty nervous about the future lately. When this happens, I turn to a simple mantra:

Life is just one day.
I am born when I wake up.
I live throughout the day.
I die when I go to sleep.

Today isn't a small fragment of life. It is all of life. It's everything there is.
But then that got me thinking…Why do I spend so much time with old stuff from the past?

I think I figured out the answer and, like all good things, it comes from gratitude. I'm so grateful that someone else spent their one day (their life!) recording what they learned so that people in the future (aka me) could make their one day the best it could be.

That feels like a pretty fulfilling way to live: spend a little time learning from past lives, fully live my one life, and leave some hints for future lives.

The challenge is when we don’t organize things nicely, it eats up more of our life and that’s no good.

That’s the fun challenge of being a librarian!