Living in the present

It’s a novel concept, this living in the present. All about being in the NOW all the time. Not being on auto pilot, and making sure you are aware of what’s happening and who is around you at all times. Seeing the blue skies, listening to the birds, watching the crazy people walk past you on a grey day, and laughing at them as they get cross, irritated, jump in the sky, scream or do any of a million other things I’ve seen these mad Londoners do. And I love it all. I love it.

I have spent the last 3 weeks being in the moment, watching these people and smiling at most of the things they do, but today, for the first time, I found myself ‘zoning out’. Oh NO! What happened?

I consciously have brought myself back to the present, and made sure that I stay awake, but today I found it hard. Maybe it’s the routine getting to me, maybe it’s the lack of ‘new’ things around me.

Maybe the novelty is wearing off, or the heat, or the lack of sleep, I don’t know, but it shocked me , that slipping into the ‘zoning out’ phase. I’ll have to watch it.