By the buddhist tradition, this is The only thing you need in your life to be happy, but is life that simple? Maybe, but there is some truth to it. If you are in the moment at crucial points in time, not all the time, cause we're all humans, we have our problems and you automaticaly get dragged into it, before you even have the time to ask yourself: are you present with your whatever you are doing no matter if it is problem, happiness, pain, joy, driving, eating and feeling good/bad in general.

The probelm is that people are aligned toward thinking into the future or on to the past and we forget the present, but if you think logically all we have is the present, we can't influence on the past and we don't know what will happen in the future, so we can't control neither of both, but most of the time we are caught doing exactly this.
In "the moment" this doesn't matter, you feel, what you feel and you don't control it, cause you can't know what will you feel in the future and what you felt in the past doesn't matter.

The biggest bitch is when you hear about this (like I did quite a while ago) and then you say to yourself: "Aw yeah man, I'm gonna do this from now on I'm gonna live in the moment." But here is the catch you are [/b]trying to live in the moment and when you are trying, that means, you want to control it and by that you're automaticaly doing something else than beeing in the moment. If you are in the moment, the moment happens by itself, and you're not worried what happened, what did you do and how you felt or what you thought of it. I know it's kind of a mindfuck, cause you get the feeling like you don't control your life, but you really don't, it happens cause it happens, there is no extra explanation on that.

How this helps with pick-up, well for starters, if you have AA and you are present with it, you are aware "I'm feeling this and guess what, I can't do shit about it, cause I'm feeling it right now, I felt it 3 sec ago I can't change that and who knows if I'm going to feel it in the future." Now I know you are thinking right now to yourself: of course I'm gonna still feel it if I don't do something.... MAYBE she opens you "gone", maybe she brokes her heel and you have an opener now to help her "gone", maybe her hair is caught on fire and she runs away "done".
And think about it, the possibilities are endless, you can use this everywhere at anytime to soften the impact of "the thing" you're facing right now.

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How my life looks like right now: STUDY HARD, PARTY HARD