I believe in being fully present,” Morrie said. “That means you should be with the person you're with.
When I'm talking to you now, Mitch, I try to keep focused only on what is going on between us.
I am not thinking about something we said last week. I am not thinking of what's coming up this Friday.
I am not thinking about doing another Koppel show, or about what medications I'm taking.
I am talking to you. I am thinking about you.
I remembered how he used to teach this idea in the Group Process class back at Brandeis.
I had scoffed back then, thinking this was hardly a lesson plan for a university course.
Learning to pay attention? How important could that be?
I now know it is more important than almost everything they taught us in college.
Morrie motioned for my hand, and as I gave it to him, I felt a surge of guilt.
Here was a man who, if he wanted, could spend every waking moment in self-pity, feeling his body for decay, counting his breaths.
So many people with far smaller problems are so self-absorbed, their eyes glaze over if you speak for more than thirty seconds.
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