Press enter or click to view image in full size St Bartholomew’s Church (Königssee) That fleeting moment when colors exploded into infinite shades I had never perceived before. My senses felt heightened in a way that made me feel truly alive. For once, I thought of nothing except the present unfolding before me. And then a thought emerged, does the best always lie ahead? What if this, right here, is the best moment of my life? Maybe we romanticize the future so much that we overlook the glaring beauty of the present. Maybe today is the best day of my life, and I am too busy awaiting an ideal tomorrow. With that awareness followed gratitude. Gratitude for the unknown. Gratitude for the unexpected things that arrive unannounced. The irony is that we spend our whole lives preparing for the future, yet forget to live the moment we are in. For that brief fleeting instant, I escaped. Escaped the chaos of the mind, the fear of the unknown, the endless possibilities of what could go wrong.…