The power of being in the moment. Are you really aware of what is going on around you? I have always been fascinated by the game of “telephones” where one person whispers something to the person next to them and it goes down the row to another 8 or 10 people, and the end result is something completely different. And, the police say eye witnesses are notoriously unreliable.
I think I am good at being aware. When I was witness to a theft, the police were very impressed at my description of the man. When my husband and I were watching a very convoluted movie (“Conversations with an Other Woman”), there were some conversations that I thought explained the backstory brilliantly – that my husband missed entirely.
However, what would 10 other people witness in either of these situations? How smug can I be? The thing that I am most pleased about is that I can pull back “scenes” in my life with a richness of detail, which means that I must have been paying attention – i.e., “there” and not planning dinner or rehashing a disagreement with a colleague.
That is what it is all about. The moment. The now. And one wonderful thing about being in the “now” is that in some future “now” I have memories that I can call up and appreciate, bringing back places and people that would be otherwise “gone”.
