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Great article Jeff!

As you said, it's easy to forget that today is a golden day.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow is uncertain. So, why not enjoy what you're experiencing?

What's your practice to remind yourself - today is a golden day?

Thx :)

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I don’t think we’ll ever get away from reminiscing or that longing for the way things were in our past. It’s what makes us human! However if more of us can recognize our own individual golden age is now we’d live in a different world.

P.S. like Rick, the hygiene comment strikes a cord. Before automobiles, when most transportation of resources and equipment was by horse drawn carriage through towns and city streets back in the day, horses and other large animal discharge was everywhere. Sanitation and automobiles radically improved people’s health. Each and every day brings new exciting innovations.

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Kevin - I think you’re right, it is part of what makes us human. Thank you for reading, and for the thoughtful comment.

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Reject over-fantasizing about the future and over-romanticizing the past and instead live in the beautiful present.

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Isn’t it great how you can just reject things?

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So good Jeff. The reality check on the level of hygiene in pre-gone eras made me laugh. Though we might argue that good mental hygiene is on the decline in some quarters. None-the-less, I can feel my mind opening to the reality that today is my golden day!

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Thank you for reading, Rick!

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