Keith: I see living in the moment, which hangs on family, for me. I look at my five-year-old and my twenty-month-old, and that's living in the moment. Enjoying their laughter, enjoying the time I spend with them, that's living in the moment. That's so precious, money can't buy that. That is the ultimate living in the moment, with your children. One of the stories, "Country Life," in that story, the character's five-year-old daughter dies due to a hunting accident. They were running away from the horrors, I think the word they refer to, of the city, the siege mentality where they had to be careful of everything they did. And they moved to a beautiful country setting, and their five-year-old daughter ends up dying due to a hunting accident. Living in the moment-and in the story, the story's plot hangs on how this child lived in the moment and how they appreciated their child's interaction with an older neighbor who lived in the moment, picking flowers, working in the garden, enjoying life. And the parents, from the way the plot flows, learn to enjoy seeing their daughter live in the moment; therefore, they lived in the moment, and when the daughter dies, that's all taken away immediately, the simple pleasures of life. So living in the moment isn't, by no means, taking advantage of the opportunity to-whether it be party, whether it be to get plastic surgery, whether it to be owning and having everything-living in the moment is enjoying what you, your person is able to do. Whether it be intellectual, physical-my father, a smart man, but he's a bricklayer. The work he does is no longer duplicated, he's from the old school, bricklayer. In his work, he lived in the moment, he did the best work he could, laying bricks. And you don't see work like that any longer. I, as a teacher, when I live in the moment, I teach based on my experiences. If I was to stop living in the moment as a teacher, I would start teaching beyond my abilities, I would start talking about or relating to things I know nothing about. Living in the moment is anchoring what you do, what you know on who you are, where you're from, and things that are immediately accessible to you. David: I was under the impression there was a separation between the things that need to be done and living in the moment, that if you allow yourself time to live in the moment at the end of the day, you've succeeded. But you seem to be saying that you can live in the moment and enjoy that time in the midst of work, in the midst of the day, all through the day, and find living in the moment in all sorts of ways through the day. Is that correct?
Keith: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You'll see modern society-and this is my perception of things-in modern society you'll see people living bigger than what they are able to live, whether it be spending more money than they have, whether it be driving faster than the laws allow, whether it be-again to go back to the party analogy, you can live bigger than what you're able to do, what you're grounded to do, and eventually it'll come falling apart. If you live in the moment or live to your abilities, you-and again this is my belief-you'll be happier, your work you do will be better, and you'll end up becoming a better, all-rounded person. So, in a sense, yes you can live in the moment by doing what you know, knowing what you do, and not trying to be or want to be something that you're not, or something that is outside from where you came. Steve: Well, I think this has been a very interesting discussion; I hope that people who have listened to this discussion will now go and study the contents that are on our site. It's available to the high school students who are working with Keith and it's also available to our other learners. We hope to do more of these on different subjects that hopefully will cause people to think about different things that affect their lives; and as they're doing that, at the same time they will improve their English, because they will learn the words and the phrases that are necessary to express many of these abstract concepts. So, thank you Keith, thank you David.
Keith: Thank you, I enjoyed this.
David: Thank you.
