Dissociation.  It’s what I do when I run.  I focus on a far off object.  I time my breathing to my cadence (though I’ve also read that this is bad for various reasons).  I tell myself to get there, then I just pick another target.  I’m at my best when I’m aiming for something.  I don’t think about the run.  Just concentrate on my breathing, cadence, and target.  However, the second part of the article about mental expectations is also true.  If I plan on running X miles in Y time, I find myself pacing my energy for it.  Like doing what my mind expects and nothing else.  Not that I’ve run recently (being lazy these days, very very lazy).

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I actually have no idea.

Push presents, a phenomenon I had no awareness of, apparently are a big deal.  I vacillate between finding it utterly ridiculous and thinking it’s the right thing to do.  I think an expectation of it is probably what puts me off, or perhaps the expectation of some sort of jewelry or something.  Should the baby be enough?  Yeah, I think so.  Does that preclude some sort of gift?  No it doesnt.  Still, there are few occasions when I find it acceptable to expect a gift, birth of a child isn’t one of them.

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