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AM I the only one whose mind is always racing ahead?
My hands might be doing one thing but my head is always at least five steps ahead, thinking what I need to do and what I should have done.
No wonder my hands and head are always tripping each other up.
Take the other day when I was desperately trying to get hold of someone but his number was constantly engaged. So I rang someone else whom I needed to speak to but she was engaged too and then I began typing something out, phone crooked between ear and shoulder, while ringing the first person.
'Bob?' I said, confused because a woman had picked up the phone.
'Do I sound like a Bob?' she retorted, clearly offended.
Oh dear. It turns out that the second person whom I knew well was actually the first whom I didn't know at all (or was it the other way round?) and it tipped the conversation into a rather awkward start.
'That's what comes of doing too much,' said my very organised sister. 'Take one step at a time.'
But it's not that easy, is it? A friend of mine, who's a Buddhist, is a great one for living in the moment. 'Try meditating,' she said kindly the other day when I found myself putting a slice of
butter in the tea and the
tea bags in the fridge. 'It helps you focus.'
So I tried. Apparently, all I had to do was to take the phone off the hook, wear something loose, find a comfortable position, close my eyes, concentrate on my breathing and (although this was an option), think of a place where I felt at peace.
So I began thinking about the Isle of Wight but then my mind drifted to the canal down the road and then I got a funny itch which reminded me that I hadn't de-flead the cat and then the meter man rang the front door bell.
'Some people,' commented my Buddhist friend kindly, 'find it harder to live in the moment than others'. Well all I can say is that I'd find this one step at a time business, a lot easier if I didn't have anything else to do. Meanwhile, my meditative break made me late for work. And the meter man will never look at me in the same way again.
Perhaps, on reflection, I shouldn't have worn my daughter's cosy pink-striped pyjamas after all...
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Wednesday 08 February 2012
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