Before and After

Sometimes when I'm in line for the grocery store, I get distracted by the magazines on the rack. Lots of headlines and pictures to look at but the ones that get me th most are the ones that say "Before...and...After" combined with pictures pre / post weight loss, plastic surgery, baby delivery, etc. What was different before then from after? It's funny how we can depict before as being the worse picture, or the lesser, and after being better - or vise verse. What if we didn't look at before or after and just lived in the in between?

Makes me think about what it is that happens in between the before and after. For example, yesterday I had my superball...I was sitting int he chair and enjoying the sunshine - then, I didn't have my superball...it fell off of the balcony and into the leaf-less bushes down below. What happened in between? Was I distracted? What was I doing? Why wasn't there a picture to capture what the process was in between.

Take a moment to think about before and after - to then focus in on what happened in between that time to create a difference. Let's try to live in that moment, not looking forward or back but again, living in the present.