Being Present

You text your mom, email your brother, send a Constant Contact to your customers, while you are eating a cookie and talking on the phone to a prospective client. These are the multitasking actions of your everyday life. These are the actions of almost everyone's everyday life. It is now the norm to see someone walking down the street talking on the phone or texting. Oblivious to their surroundings or their fellow human beings. It is the way our society has begun to communicate.
Unfortunately, if we are talking or texting to people all the time we are actually never present where we are. We lose the opportunity to meet those around us. Our moments pass us by as we are actually mentally somewhere else while they are happening. Maybe our moments could leave us a message? Probably not.
Part of the problem is if we aren't present we don't give ourselves the opportunity to engage that person across from us. Have you ever been to a restaurant and spied a couple at a table across from you and instead of staring at each other they are staring at their phones?

Believe me I am as guilty as anyone of mutli-tasking to the nth degree. I apologize to those who have heard the tap, tap, tap of the keyboard as we have chatted on the phone. I promise to try and be more present in the future. Afterall being present with someone, really engaging them and listening to them makes them feel important. Which is just how it should be, because they are.