There’s a nagging feeling that someone else might be doing it better than us. Social media wants to steal us away from what is right in front of us.
ANCORA IMPARO HOW TO
That you and I will likely spend our entire lives figuring how to root ourselves in the present moment because it’s just so hard to do. I am beginning to think this will be the challenge of my lifetime (at least one of them). I don’t know that I will ever stop learning the lesson behind “Come Matter Here.” I think I will always be figuring out- in one way or another- how to root myself in the present moment and call it enough. I’d become the guru on “being where your feet are.” But I have to tell you this hasn’t happened yet.
I naively assumed that when I wrote all the words down and then saw them in print on a bookshelf, I’d never struggle with this topic matter again. You never fully arrived “there.” You just pick another benchmark to strive for and it leaves you hungry every time. In my writing (and my living of the writing), I realized that “there” is just another thing we are reaching for. “There” was a place I always intended to get to but I never really came close. “There” was the body that was leaner and stronger than last year’s body. “There” was the next impressive thing for Instagram. I’d long worshipped the destination of “there” even though I could not pinpoint it on the map. So as I wrote “Come Matter Here,” I was trying to answer the question: How do we learn to be here in a world that is so consumed with “getting there”? The answers become the chapters of a new book. I ask myself tough questions and then I try my very best to answer those questions truthfully.
That’s been the heart behind everything I’ve composed over the last few years, ever since my agent gave me that timeless advice. Any author will tell you: we write the books we need to read.
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