MIRAI CODE · Here, and Now
To You Whose Mind Is Full of Past Regret and Future Fear
The only thing we ever truly hold is here, and now.
Mirai — a Future Decoder who reads the sounds of your name
"If only I'd done things differently, back then."
"What on earth is going to become of me?"
Before you know it, your head is always full — of what's already gone, and what hasn't yet come. And the one day you're actually living, this one, goes untasted. Do you know that feeling too?
In my readings, I meet so many people caught between regret for the past and fear of the future, with now left standing empty. And it is the earnest ones — the ones able to think of so many things, the gentle ones — who feel it most.
— And the truth is, I was one of them.
Just after the divorce, when I had lost my home too, and come back to the little countryside town where I was born. Income: zero. No work. How on earth was I meant to go on living from here? It was as though I stood frozen inside a tunnel with no visible way out.
In the dead of night, I would suddenly wake. Staring up at the ceiling — "If only I'd done things differently." "What is going to become of me?" Round and round it went: the past that was gone, the future not yet come. And then I couldn't sleep at all.
— But one day, it came to me.
Regret the past, and time still will not turn back. Worry over the future, and no answer comes. So — let me change the question I was asking myself.
"The me of right now — what do I want to do, from here?"
It was the strangest thing. That alone — and the feet that had stopped began, once again, to move.
All we can ever truly hold is here, and now
Pause for a moment, and consider this with me.
The past can no longer be changed. The future has not yet come. The one thing we can truly hold in our hands is only ever here, and now.
Anxiety and regret swell, most often, precisely when the heart has drifted away from now — off into the past, or into the future. Guide it gently back to the present, and that heaviness eases, all at once.
The sounds of your name — the nearest door back to now
When someone calls your name, don't you find yourself pulled — softly — back into this very moment?
To feel the sounds of your own name, quietly. It is the simplest way there is to tie a heart that has flown off in every direction back, like an anchor, to here, and now.
Your name is always there, right beside the you of this present moment.
What I am really doing, in every reading
So, more than "predicting" the future, what I hold precious is helping to bring your scattered heart, softly, back to here, and now.
When the heart returns to this present moment, the strangest thing happens: the next step comes, quite naturally, into view.
In the end
The future is not something far away. It lives just past the place where all your nows have gathered and stacked, one upon another.
So live this here, this now, with care. That is the surest way there is to make a future.
Take one deep breath. You are here, now — and you are perfectly all right.