Being present in time is a present itself

Being present in time is a present itself

I moved out two days ago. By moving out, I mean flying to the other side of the world. Yes, I know – I either do nothing or go extreme. There is usually no middle ground when it comes to me. A lot of times, I get into troubles because of my procrastination and lack of willpower to start something or finish it. But once in a blue moon when my eye is set on a goal, it will lead me into oases of opportunities, novelties and life lessons. This trip to Down Under may only have been two days so far, but it already has given me some things to think about. One of the things I noticed is that I am fully present all the time while I’m here. I look up and observe anything around me while strolling around the big city.

By observing more, I noticed that more things stick longer because of the fact that I am more aware of using my senses.

My eyes see more because I look around me more often. My ears hear more because I am having a more open attitude towards people. My nose smells more while my taste gets more stimulated because of the unfamiliar food I came across to.  Last but not at least, I feel more because I allow myself to go out and take in new experiences instead of staying in all the time.

It sounds like common sense, but in practice, it always seems to deviate from it and shows us a whole another scenario. It’s in our nature to get distracted easily because of our short concentration span, especially when you are being exposed to endless and endless of stimulations in nowadays tech-dominated age. It may even have shortened our concentration span in a sense. It’s almost impossible to avoid it because technology not only reaches you, but your environment gets the temptation too to pick out the phone every time it vibrates.

Our unconscious need to copy others eventually give us a reassuring feeling that we belong to a group too. 

When you see everyone looking on the phone on the train, you tend to do the same thing instead of looking out the window and enjoy the view. Gradually, from copying others behaviour it turns into a habit that is hard to shake off.

That’s why it is so damn hard to be actually present in time. Your physical body may be present in a specific place. However, when your mind constantly wanders off to another place, it doesn’t even matter that you are in that specific place. You will miss out and won’t get to experience something that will stick and in which you want to take the time to let it sink in and gets to learn from. Everything will just be a blur, something you will forget the minute you get distracted again by another thing which pops up in front of you.

Being present in time is a present itself

It is something we often overlook and take granted for. We are only able to open this present by actually making use of it. Not like those presents you receive at your birthday and never even have used it once after your party is over. To not be able to be present in time means you stack this gift of yours away under a pile of other neglected presents. This one is not useless. It will never get outdated and anyone – no matter young or old – can make use of it.

Open this present and enjoy every bit of it

From the girl who rambles through life