{"id":99,"date":"2025-09-27T17:59:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gersh.love\/?p=99"},"modified":"2025-09-27T17:59:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:59:46","slug":"on-being-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gersh.love\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"On Being Present"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a bit like reminding yourself over and over you&#8217;re alive right now. The issue is the moment always folds into the next one, and the one after, and&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A better way to feel present is to experience discomfort with boredom. This is what I run from. My body internally convulses and reaches for any entertainment. If you can be more still with boredom, you&#8217;ll be more present. You&#8217;ll feel that which you&#8217;ll do anything to avoid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a few decades there will be boredom groups and boredom coaches who host boredom retreats. Novels written about how boredom changed the very fabric of one&#8217;s life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, it&#8217;s a useful exercise-sitting with boredom. Or fear. Or anger. Or whatever bubbles up. It&#8217;s the only way to remind yourself you are right now right here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a bit like reminding yourself over and over you&#8217;re alive right now. The issue is the moment always folds into the next one, and the one after, and&#8230;. A better way to feel present is to experience discomfort with boredom. This is what I run from. My body internally convulses and reaches for any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gersh.love\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gersh.love\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gersh.love\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gersh.love\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gersh.love\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gersh.love\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/gersh.love\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gersh.love\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gersh.love\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gersh.love\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}