This game is hosted by Vinitha Dileep, on her blog  'Reflections' and I discovered it on Esha's  blog. This time  the word prompt is 'NOW'.

I met people so preoccupied of their own thoughts and reasonings, that in the middle of a discussion I realized that they misunderstood the essence of the dialog so badly that a repetition would have been mandatory...The present moment it's an idea not so difficult to understand, thinkingthat every lived second it's a drop of 'now' and their sum creates the 'string'of our life.

But what is difficult to perceive is the presence or absence  of the mind in aparticular 'now', the awareness of what  is happening with us in a certain moment.I love this zen quote, which is a perfect metaphor...