FlexRex: Fictional Blogger

The principle for Day #56 on the 101-day book report says: "Live in the present."

I find it hard to live in the present. I can enjoy a moment and just kind of languish in it, sure. But soon I will be dwelling on something I once did or want to do.

I imagine that lower forms of life have no problem with this mode of operation--from amoebas to dogs, they pretty much just react to stimuli. But we, as the self-aware humans, struggle with just... being.

But the interesting thing to me is how easy it is when I'm at rest. In dreams, I can encounter my third grade teacher or my old dog who died 30 years ago and nothing seems odd or out of place. There is just the moment and the experience.

There's an old saying that your dreams are just your mind taking out the trash. And sometimes, as I watch the strangeness of the present unfold, I think maybe it's time to get into recycling.