Where ever you are

"Where ever you are, be all there." -Jim Elliot

I like to go places and see sites. I like to travel, though i haven't had much experience in it. But what i've done I enjoy. I have no problem being there, because i want to be there. The problem is when I come to a place that I no longer want to be. I don't want to be there, so I drift away in my mind. I leave with my emotions, efforts and abilities. I am no longer a help to the place i'm in. I don't enjoy it when I see other leave, or "check out" of the places they are in, especially when they are in the same community that I am in, because it effects me. The real problem is that this is what I am struggling with at the moment. I am not all here.

The second problem might be worse, I don't know where I am. There is no other place i'd rather be.

Coffee Shop

I'm currently sitting at The Grind, a medium size coffee shop in Oakhurst, writing a paper on my concept of human nature. (I threw in the topic of what I was writing because I thought it would make me seem more "cool" or intellectually "deep") I look up and decided to take a break by looking at the people around me. I promise that I am not a creeper, but enjoy the occasional time for people watching. I look to my right, there is a girl, who looks like she is in her upper high school years, sitting with her Mac in front of her and head phones in her ears. To the right of her, a girl wearing an APU hoodie reading a book while her Mac is open in front of her and headphone in her ears. To my left there is a Japanese girl, working on her Mac with headphones in her ears. The one man sitting closest to me with a PC (YAY!, finally, im not the only one who made the smart decision in here!) on the table in front of him with Galileo's Discoveries and Opinions lying next to the computer, also has headphones in his ears. I look at myself sitting with my computer open writing my paper with a stack of books by my side and headphones in my ears. I look at everyone again, and I begin to think what if we did not have these headphones. Would we engage in conversation with one another? What if i'm missing an opportunity to gain a valuable friend? What if right now, I am botching an opportunity to get to know a girl near me that could eventually lead to a date in the future? (however unlikely) Have I allowed these opportunities to slip away from me simply because I would rather be listening to the music in my ears and not listen to the music already playing in the shop, and look to occupied to engage in conversation with the persons next to me? Would they talk to me if my headphones weren't in my ears? Am I truly missing out, or am I saving myself from distraction? Perhaps I'm just asking too many questions. I think I will take my headphones out and see what happens.