A call during dinner

My phone 📱 rang while everything was sitting down to eat I almost ignored it assuming the call could wait but something madevme check the screen it was a family member asking a simple question about tomorrow's plans the conversation took less than a minute yet it made the evening.

After hanging up, , I returned to the table and listened more carefully to the conversation already happening. I realized I often divide attention between people physically present and people reaching me from elsewhere. There is no perfect balance, but I can at least choose when to be fully here.

I have noticed that I was doing the same since my college days. Me and my friend used to study in group..just the two of us and I was the one who is mostly distracted...sometimes I miss our study group session and I wish that I actually paid attention to what we was studying so that we could complete studying fast and spend some time talking and making fun but I was distracted...I did not know the value of the moment I had at that time and Instead my head was somewhere else and now I regret it