Goodbye Jay Leno....Really?

Jay Leno and Jimmy Fallon

Is this really good-bye, Jay?  Should I hold my applause because NBC will bring you back in a year?  Maybe that is their strategy: take you off, let the ratings sink, then bring you back to regain the audience share and more!  In any respect, I saw you fight back tears and say the farewell heard round the world by so many: "I am the luckiest guy in the world--and--these 22 years have been the best in my life."  Well, for an original guy, you just copied along of farewell folks! 

Truth is that the best time is NOW, right here and NOW!  The past is gone, memories fade and are not real; the future is not yet, may never be--it is an illusion to live the future now.  There is only now.  It is in the present that God meets us, gives us what we need, everything in fact--and we are most fully alive when we live in the here and now.  What is pain?  The baggage from the past, dead and gone, that we carry emotionally--if we so choose.  What is worry and fear? The future that is not--which only may be--and hardly ever comes about.  Mark Twain has said: I have spent my life in dreadful fear of the future, most of which has never come true!  Jesus is more direct:  which one of you can add one cubit to the span of life?  Let tomorrow worry about tomorrow. 

Humor can be a time to laugh.  To breathe in and out...  and by so doing, you are alive in the present.  Stop breathing and see what happens.  Take a deep breath and you just tasted the present!