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no wonder people have a hard time living in the moment.

It’s December 13. I just got an email about Foster the People at Summer Stage on May 29th and 30th. Tickets go on sale this Friday. That’s 5.5 months away. 

The other day, a friend (who shall remain unnamed) was concerned about leaving a holiday party we were at to head to a different holiday party because “It didn’t look that like many people were checked-in there.”

Target is selling bathing suits already (ok, to be fair, people do go on vacation during the winter).

No wonder we have a hard time living in the moment and appreciating the now. It’s one of my biggest pet peeves. I don’t know if this is a New York thing (I don’t notice this in Chicago, or on recent trips to Atlanta, New Orleans and DC — though it’s totally that way in LA) or just a “people today” thing.

Either way, the seemingly growing inability to be satisfied by the present is really worrisome to me. I see it communication. I see it in dating. I see it in the “maybe” RSVPs. I see it in job satisfaction. I see it when trying to plan a trip or book a flight or pick a brunch location. The conundrum of choice. It’s a first world problem to have, but it doesn’t mean it’s not disheartening.