I am really, really, really, really bad at staying in the present.
I first noticed it when I was brushing my teeth this morning. I’ve said before that I hate being bored, and that perhaps my greatest fear in life is tedium. Or discomfort. Or anything that doesn’t feel “good.” Type 7/Aries moon/ADHD, we all know the drill.
I have been on deadline for a while now, and I’ve been dealing with a lot of financial, personal, medical, and mental stress, and my god — I would rather be anywhere but here.
I’m fine. I keep saying it because it’s true, but that’s also because my coping strategy appears to be to jet off to whichever alternate universe that seems more interesting than the one I’m in right now.1
Taking brushing my teeth, for example. I don’t hate brushing my t…