Do I have pants on?

The gym is loud with the sounds of dribbling and cheering. I’m sitting and watching my kid play, following the action back and forth and back and forth.

Sometimes I zone out if he isn’t on the court.

Then it hits me.  This weird, irrational thought along with slight panic.

“Do I have pants on?”, I think to myself.

A quick look down confirms that, yes, of course I have pants on.  It really would have been quite difficult to have left the house, drive my kid to the game, entered and sat in the bleachers if I didn’t have on pants.  Surely someone would have noticed and alerted me to my oversight.

I laugh to myself and my ridiculousness.

It is like those dreams you have when you show up to school naked except this happens to me when I am awake!

It is so weird.  Just sitting there and wondering if I am half naked.

I wonder to myself if I it is possible I could be dreaming.  Or if I could really be half naked but think I’m dressed because being half naked would be crazy.

I ponder what is the true reality of this moment.  Can I tell what’s real?

Then I realize I have been lost in my head and missing the game.

Focus on the court.

I can’t possibly be half naked.

Or can I?

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