Today’s Exactly100: The One Thing

The One Thing, says Jack Palance in the movie City Slickers, is the great secret of life. What is it? This One Thing that distinguishes a life well lived from one wasted on non-essentials and trivial pursuits?

A certain amount of charm, elan, purpose and presence inform a life lived fully attuned to "the one thing."

Presence is the key. When a person lives as he should live, he is present (not absent); he lives in the present (not in the past). And moves about with a striking presence of mind every second, minute, day and year of his life. /mdm