"Be all there"

Wherever you are…be all there. Advice from an ex of all people, but interesting advice it is. I can’t be ALL anywhere. Heck, right now my heart is in at least 3 different places and yet I’m in another all together. Can you ever really be “all there”? And if you are, does that not mean that you are giving up or selling yourself short in some area? I know that for the rest of my life I will never be fully content and happy and wish for nothing. Sound crazy? Ok, maybe it does. But here’s the thing…I gladly left part of my heart in Uganda. I long to be back there and not a day goes by without me thinking about the people there. However, while I was there I also missed my family and friends in America. I can never be two places at once and so I know that I will always, on some level, long of something I don’t have. I don’t want to be “all there”. I don’t want to simply focus all of my time and energy on the things occupy my daily life (which is what the advice was given in reference to) because while I do need to focus on my life in Brentwood, part of my heart is in Uganda, part of it is in Chattanooga, and part of it I have given away elsewhere. If I decided to focus on my here and now, my daily activities be it a job or school, I would risk losing or at least neglecting the people and things that I care so much about that are not in my daily life…and why would anyone want to risk that?