The Importance of Being Present

I think for really almost the entirety of my entire life I have avoided being present. It's essentially a coping mechanism right it's essentially something where I have found it easier to constantly live in a future projection or a past reality. The times I have been truly present in my life I would describe as like spiritually significant events because they're not as common as I would like them to be at the end of the day. We all have trauma in our childhoods and just through life and we learn strategies and skills in which we can deal with that trauma and function and maybe even thrive and succeed but if we don't catch the patterns and we let them kind of assume and consume our lives we then