I was putting the finishing touches on this post when I hit something on the keyboard and it vanished. I had saved it all along the way, but when I chose the article from the history it was blank. Too bad; it was pretty good. I'm not writing it again. So all you get is this synopsis.
I've been thinking a lot lately about our tendency to want to be somewhere other than where we are. We use drugs and alcohol, music, television, movies, planes, trains and automobiles to transport us to there from here. The truth is, when we get there we aren't there, we're (t)here. We're still here. We can't get away from physically being here. Mentally you can be anywhere. This ability is not all bad and it's not all good. Which is what I wrote about.
New information (not in first draft) that is happening now (since I wrote what was lost) --Strange thing . I just spent eleven hours in the last four days on four flights. And as I sit here my desk and my computer are moving. It's all moving up and down and back and forth. It's moving a lot and not just a little ( no drugs and very little alcohol involved). So before I preach too hard about mindfulness and learning to be here instead of there, my here seems to still be there.
Need coffee.
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