Hi Mike,

Thank you for your response. Yes, I agree about the importance of having the presence of mind to change our actions in the moment. I have been taking many steps to try and develop practices that allow me to live mindfully and in the present moment. However, it’s interesting you mention the “tactics” of the other person. Because this guy I was talking about kept trying to convince me that everything was fine, that “you only live once” and that I should just be thinking about the here and now. At the time he was trying to convince me to go back to his place with him but I couldn’t let myself do that. But it’s weird, because I could have taken the idea of “living in the present moment” in the way he wanted me to take it, or I could have taken it as deciding then and there it wasn’t right and taking myself out of the situation. A bit confusing, really. Both make sense to an extent, but in the end the moral thing to do is the second choice isn’t it.