What Is Wrong With Now?

What Is Wrong With Now?

I’m walking along “in the moment”, but my mind wants to jump to some point in time, the past, or the future….anywhere that isn’t now.

Is there something wrong with now? Something I need to escape from?

Not really. This phenomenon can happen when I’m in the very places where I love to be. While wandering alone along the forest paths on the side of Beinn Ghuilean this morning, for instance.

It’s probably a survival instinct you would think. From the days when my ancestors were needing to rehash the past in order to learn from mistakes, and plan the future. All in order to survive.

Those instincts aren’t necessarily helpful to me today though. Because NOW is the only place that I can actually count on, and my survival doesn’t need me to leave it too often. And it definitely doesn’t need me to do it when I’m in the middle of doing something I love.

Not that imagination is redundant. But it would be nice to go into that world as a deliberate choice.

Because, I’m lucky. Most of the time, everything I need and want is here, right now.