Today, my Guru (Anand Mehrotra) reminded me of an incredible feeling that we all experienced at one point in our lives: the energy jolt we all feel on the last day of school before summer vacation.

It started with him describing the heavy backpack, the sensation of carrying heavy bricks on our backs. The moment he mentioned it, the present moment started to fade, and I was back in primary school with my Scout schoolbag (Scout Swing Sternjakob Backpack) and its heaviness pressing against my back. That schoolbag was heavy when empty and even heavier when filled with books.

It was the fall of 1992, during the first-grade opening ceremony in the school yard. We were all grouped behind our Primary School Teacher, meeting for the first time, with the excited and anxious faces of many children, while their parents tried to figure out where they should sit during the ceremony, holding back emotions. My heart was happy while my back was aching.

Meanwhile, back in the present moment, Anand Ji was talking about how everything is within us, from the first breath on the first day of life to the last breath here on earth, and everything in between. Which means everything is alive at once, and each time you give an experience deeper thought, you activate it within yourself.

As I described above, the trigger was him describing the heaviness of the schoolbag and comparing the books to bricks, which threw me into a past moment that became a present moment for a mere second. Reality is relative.

In physics, “reality is relative” means measurements of space, time, speed, and energy are not absolute but depend on the observer's motion or frame of reference. Einstein’s theories show that observers moving at different speeds will perceive time passing differently (time dilation) and objects having different lengths (length contraction), yet all physical laws remain consistent. Consciousness works the same way. For a second, that classroom in 1992 was no longer a memory; it was happening now.

Then he said: "Live your life knowing everything will work out in the end, because it does."

And probably, reading the faces around the room, he went on to describe the spike of energy you feel in your body, knowing it is the last day of school. He spoke about awakening that feeling within the present moment, keeping it with us, and reminding ourselves of it whenever we need a jolt of energy.

That is when the present moment melted over the past: leaving school on the last day in June of 1997, on rollerblades, feeling alive. Like every pore and cell in and on my body was aliveeeee. The wind on my face, the sun on my skin, the excitement in my belly, the visions in my third eye of what the summer would be like. Ah, the potential of screwing up was limitless, and the capacity to hold space for it was just as limitless LOL

Funny how enlightenment sometimes arrives disguised as a last day of school feeling. Not as wisdom descending from the heavens, but as the sudden remembrance that underneath all the bricks we carry, we were once just kids exploding into summer, convinced life was about to begin. Maybe it still is.