You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

It's the nature of the mind to drift away. The mind is like the Pacific Ocean, it waves. And mindfulness has been shown to drop underneath the waves. If you drop underneath the agitation in the mind, into your breath deep enough calmness, gentle undulations.

We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment ‘practice’ or ‘meditation practice.’

Allow your attention to gently alight on your belly, as if you were coming upon a shy animal sunning itself on a tree stump in a clearing in the forest. Feel your belly rise or expand gently on the inbreath, and fall or recede on the outbreath.

Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.

Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.