in the moment

English

Prepositional phrase

in the moment

2. Fully and freely enjoying oneself without thought to past or future.

   She encourages us to strive to live in the moment.

   • 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.

4. (sometimes proscribed) Synonym of at the moment.

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: hetkessä
• Polish: chwilą (used mostly in the phrase "żyć chwilą")
• Spanish: el momento, en el momento, el presente