I often chide myself for my lack of mindfulness. Last month I was on holiday in Sorento and now I can only remember snippets of my week. I think to myself, did I really just wander around one of the most attractive places in the world not paying attention?
As most of you know I teach the Stone Age in schools and I pretty sure that our hunter gatherer ancestors were far more observant and in the moment than we are. I can hardly remember which schools I was at last week, hunter gatherers in contrast must have held enormous and complicated maps in their heads remembering where useful and fruitful trees were, where the animals went and where the dangers lay. It makes me ashamed to be wandering around like a mindless fool compared to them.
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