George's Tire Shop 1

I was driving along listening to Echhart Tolle's the Power of Now...very insightful....he had just said "Own each moment in your life as though you have chosen it"…He said doing this "would transform your life". I stopped the tape and was thinking about the implications of what he had said. Accept the good things and the bad things that occur every moment of my life just as it is...as though I had chosen it. I started running this over and over through my mind...this would remove the pain of most any unpleasant experience because the pain I feel emotionally is really only from how I am defining the moment. Everything I feel...good or bad...is not about what is actually happening but about the meaning I am applying to it...I repeated this several times...own every moment in my life as though I had chosen it....wanting it to really sink in.

It was about then that I decided to turn into a convenience store...I turned to quickly and hit the sharp edge of a very small curb...but it was like running into a wall...the tire exploded...before I could react my back wheel hit the same curb and there was a second explosion. I came to a stop in the parking lot...people all around were stopped in their tracks...and there I sit in the parking lot...my first thought was "own this moment as if you had chosen it"...my next thought was..."yeah, right"...and then I did.