Working Girl?

Wow, I am at my "job" this morning, and wondering if this can be real.  Since moving to Florida, Don and I are trying to start a pet care and services business.  I put my profile on Care.com and met a few potential clients, and was hired by a family to watch their pets while they are on vacation for a week.   This is the third day I've been here.  It is not like work, I can't believe I am getting paid to play with and care for 5 adorable, sweet, loving dogs, a very interactive parrot and a fragile, ancient cat.  This is my dream job come true.   I am trying to just take it day by day and let it sink in that this is real, at least right now, and try not to worry about the future or whether this "will work out" because right now, it IS working out, and all we can ever do is take things day by day, learn from the past, experience the present, and do the best we can in the present to make our future the best it can be.  

For too long I had a job where I wished for the future all the time, looking forward to the time work got over with, then looking forward to the weekend, then the next long vacation. Pretty soon, all I was doing was looking forward to retiring in 20 years or so.  It suddenly became apparent to me that life is too short to wish it all away.   While the future is uncertain, the present right now is much more enjoyable, and really, when you get right down to it, all we really have is the present.  I choose to live my life IN the present from today forward, and to help others try and do the same.