RE: Being present should not be complicated

I read this post a little while ago and it's been rattling around in my head since. 🔗 Being present should not be complicated The short version: the author was outside one evening on vacation with family and friends, and instead of just enjoying it, he kept thinking about it. This moment will pass. I should capture it. This might be the last time we're all together like this. He ended up a little melancholy over every passing second. His takeaway was that trying to be present on purpose actually gets in the way of being present. Just let the moment happen. I get it. I really do. But reading it as a 60-year-old man, I had a different reaction. When I was a teenager going to concerts, nobody was holding up a phone, because there weren't any. You went, you yelled, you sang along badly, you hung out with your buddies in the parking lot afterward, and that was it. The only thing you brought home was a torn ticket stub, maybe a shirt, and ringing ears. We were "present" because there was no…

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