Enhancing Your There-ness

Is there any “there” there?

Are you there yet? (Photo by mauro mora on Unsplash)

This story has no structure, no ending that I can tell. Yet. It may have no reason to exist, other than it’s here.

Or rather, it’s there.

It does have a start, at about 11:50 a.m. today.

I had finished a class, and an older student was telling me about the various papers he had to write. You know, how much work he had to do, how much time it took. Stuff like that.

I said, “Don’t worry. You’ll get there.” That’s one of those empty phrases that says something, but you’re never sure what. I meant, of course, that he would get his papers finished.

I have this habit of tossing off little phrases when I don’t need to. It keeps people off guard, which is probably what I’m after. It’s a persona thing.

So after I said, “You’ll get there,” I added, “So will I.”

The guy looked puzzled, then smiled and said, “Doc, you’re already there. Maybe you’re enhancing your there-ness.”

Conceptualizing There

Enhancing your there-ness.

I thought that was a pretty good phrase. I told him I would use it. I’ll probably use it a lot.