The Future You Wishes You’d Stay Awhile

There’s a version of you in the future…
One with laugh lines deeper from all the joy.
One who’s held grief and gotten back up.
One who’s built some dreams and laid others to rest.
She’s wiser now. Softer.
And she wishes you’d stop rushing.

She wishes you'd fall in love with where you are right now.

I’ve been reflecting on this a lot lately—how in the goal-setting, vision-boarding, manifestation-chasing world, we tend to live like time travelers.
We obsess over the past.
We reach for the future.
But we forget the one place that actually matters: now.

Let me explain.

We dig into the past for clues.
What worked? What didn’t?
What did I do wrong? What did I miss?

Then we leap into the future—dreaming big, casting vision boards, scripting our “next level” selves into existence.
And don’t get me wrong—I love the future. I’m a big dreamer by nature.
But somewhere along the way…we stopped honoring the majesty of the present.

We forgot that this moment—this one—is what we once prayed for.
We forget that this is where the future is born.
That now is the portal.
Without it, we’re just recycling hope with no ground to land it in.

If the present moment was a person?
I think she’d feel underappreciated.
Ignored.
Talked over at the dinner table of your life.

And I get it.

I’ve missed the moment more times than I can count.

I’ve stared in the mirror at 28, wishing I had a “better” body—only to get to 38 and wish I’d loved her more.

I’ve raised my voice at my kids when I was exhausted, thinking, “God, when will this stage be over?”
Only to wish for those crazy years later, wondering where those surprisingly electric moments went.
Missing the chaos that once made me feel alive and connected.

I’ve been in moments in my marriage where I was too busy rewriting the future in my head to enjoy the way he looked at me in that moment.

And maybe you’ve felt it, too.
That ache of presence gone unnoticed.

But here’s what I know now:
The present moment is not a waiting room.
It’s the main event.

This second? This breath?
It’s a miracle in motion.
And I don’t want to miss it anymore.

So if you need a reminder, this is it:

✨ Fall in love with your life as it is.
✨ Soften into now.
✨ Let presence be enough.

Because someday, your future self will look back and whisper…
“Thank you for staying here a little longer.”

With love from the freefall,

S.