in the moment

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in the moment

  1. Fully and freely enjoying oneself without thought to past or future.
    • 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 63:
      Not the grim humans who struggle clench-jawed into work each day, more like a boisterous bunch of mini-humans let loose in a child's playground - free, rambunctious, just happy to be alive and in the moment.
    • 2010, Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, page 532:
      She lived in the moment, surrendered to whatever the day presented, and remained her true, original self.

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