I can focus for 5 hours on a tumor but not 5 minutes on someone I love
The author reflects on the challenge of being present in personal relationships compared to professional focus. They acknowledge that life is always busy and that true presence requires conscious effort. The decision to engage in moments with loved ones is made repeatedly throughout the day.
- ▪The author struggles with maintaining focus on loved ones amidst life's distractions.
- ▪They emphasize that life will never calm down, making presence a choice rather than a circumstance.
- ▪The act of being present is determined in fleeting moments throughout the day.
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I'd love to tell you I always catch it, but that would be a lie. The drift is older and stronger than the noticing, and most days it wins more than I do. But I've stopped believing the lie that presence is something that happens to you when life finally calms down enough to allow it. Life is never going to calm down. The dinner is never going to feel like an emergency. The only thing that changes is whether you're there for it — and that gets decided in a half-second, a hundred times a day, in the gap between the impulse and the leaving.
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