What will now be like later?

So I just started school again. If you ask me "Did you learn anything today?" I'll say "probably." Life blurs together like that sometimes. You go through high school to get to college, and college to get a job. You're constantly taking in information and learning from everything, and maybe more importantly, everyone around you. But if there's one thing I know I've learned, one thing I know will stick with me, one thing I'll have to remember, is to enjoy where you are. Enjoy where you are because its all part of it. It's ALL part of the experience. Goals are good, they're what drive us to achieve amazing things. But if you only think of where you are as a just a stepping stone on the path to some crowning moment in your future then you can get lost in a future that hasn't come yet. No matter how hard you work or how great you become you can't forget how small you were once. It sounds simple, you might hear it all the time from people who have proven themselves, "Don't you ever forget where you came from." But when you stop and think I don't think it means what it first sounds like. It isn't supposed to be a reminder of how far you've come and how much you've achieved. It's the opposite. It's more humbling than that. To remember that you're not better than that small town bar you played an open mic at on the second Tuesday of every month, you're not too good to learn from your first piano teacher, and you're never to great to forget there is no top. The world doesn't stop when you think you have it all. To think you won't be happy until you're the skinniest or the smartest or the best or just until you make it somehow is a sad condition. Because every second that you forget matters is one more second that didn't get you closer to your best future. To look back and remember it all added up to something means more that the something it's self. And it's all I want. Now is constant, but the future doesn't ever really come.