Our Present Hope

Present hope, a little paradoxical as hope has the connotation of a future outcome, wished and desired. Present is the continuously unfolding moment often barely acknowledged or fully experienced, so keen are we to be there, in the future where our hopes have all turned into a reality (of sorts)
For how long has humankind nurtured this longed for future where things will be better, easier, without fear, pain, hunger, danger, poverty..........the list could go on and on, you can add your own desires to it, then imagine this on a global scale, 6 billion plus humans, all desiring that there present hopes will become future realities.
Some might argue that for  some those present hopes of the past, have in fact, become the present realities of day to day life, the realities of abundant material wealth, science backed medicine, free education (whose agenda?) security, for some. What is the cost of the realization of all those past present hopes, culminating in a constantly unfolding now, now ,now.
It is the cost of all those present hopes that should concern us all.

We are reliably informed that all there is, is the present moment, the past has gone, committed to an uncertain memory, which will fade and decay with us. The future is not yet here and is in itself unknowable except through the medium of probability.
Seconds tick by with an increasing pressure for action ,movement and activity and once the moment has passed , it can never be reclaimed, rewound, replayed, edited or modified, all that we can do is watch to see where the ripples will spread and what other intertwined moments and actions it will collide with.
Awareness in the moment of action, easily written,incredibly hard to achieve, is, I believe the key to living without regret.