Here is where I am:

To be ‘Mindful’ is to be at the epicenter of life and oddly enough it requires practice. Our minds are such as to be asleep to the unique unfolding experience of each present moment and it’s possibilities. It has become our common nature to proceed through life without actually touching more than the large bits. We begin to live for what is to come and ignore the omnipresence of now. Given the pace and apparent complexity of the world, we have created, our mind’s adaptation to ‘autopilot’ is understandable - but is it acceptable?
Each time we lose touch with our surroundings we miss an opportunity to grow, to learn, to heal, to feel, to love, to understand, to be compassionate, to actively sculpt the world around us and our own existence within it.
Consider reclaiming and cultivating the gift of each moment we all abundantly share.

Awareness:
Tibetan story:
“An aged lama practicing meditation by a pond is continuously being distracted by small insects drowning in the water before him. Each day he assumes his meditational position; each day he begins his prayers and each day he saves a bug from dying.
His fellow monks, concerned for him and his apparent inability to focus, suggest he cost his eyes while meditating or move away from the pond. The old lama replies: How can I sit with closed eyes and meditate on compassion while other beings suffer before me?”