livin' in the moment

I have read much lately about remembering how it used to be. I have seen old television shows revisited, how cheap things were, and remember how easy things used to be. When I turn on my memory, I can remember with great clarity how it was. While alot of life was easier, some of it wasn't.
Life today isn't so bad. I have seen my children grow to be adults, and have families of their own. I must admit that sitting in front of a computer screen with a coke, and a smoke, beats the hell out of hours in the library trying to research a report for history class. Things were cheaper, yes, but I also worked for 1.25 an hour. As I remember it took years for us to learn of the watergate scandal. today we broadcast the scandals as they happen on a satellite channel called C-span. I remember it was alot harder to seperate the crooks from the basically honest. Today it is alot easier, they are all crooks.  
I find it comforting living in the moment. I once heard it said that if you have one foot in yesterday, and one foot in tomorrow, you are pissing all over today. Yes I know the world is going to hell around me, but I also know that come what may, myself, and my own will survive. Living in today with the full knowledge of surviving tomorrow is one part preperation, two parts attitude. Focus, and vision are parts of the equation. If I focus on the bad, the bad increases. If I try to see the positive, the positive increases.
The place I am in today is a result of the screwups I got through yesterday, hoping to not make the same mistakes tomorrow. My only true course of action, live in the moment.