I recently discovered on Spotify the French electronic artist heylucas. His single “life is beautiful” is surprisingly a good summary of what mindfulness brings you:
Focusing on your sense
puts you right into the
present moment
and when you are in the
present moment
what happens is you begin to notice
all the simple things in life
holy sh*t life is f*cking beautiful
There is wisdom here. The great tragedy of human existence is that we spend most of our waking life worried in matters related to our survival, thinking what to do next, perpetually hijacked by the next thought. Boredom —that weird state of contemplating your place in space and time— is now a relic of the past.
All we had—all we will ever have, is this moment. The past is a distant memory. The future has yet to arrive. But the present moment is here. It has always been here. Happiness is available to you at any time, if you decide to pay attention. And most of us will live our lives oblivious to this fact.