Before we delve in, I'd like to acknowledge the shall-we-say notable lapse in time between my last post and, er, this one. Yup, it's been a while, but when you've got a teething 8-month-old, cooking, laundry, vaccuuming (etc), and oh yeah, online classes, with essays and tests and research papers and suchlike...well, you get the idea. So, something had to give and it ended up being this blog, TEMPORARILY! Summer break is coming, and with it, increased bloggability! Yes, I did, in fact, just create a word - language and I have a somewhat cozy relationship.
Now, let's delve into the tofu or sustainably and humanely grown meat of the matter! Many of us humans thirst for knowledge in general, and in particular, most of us are fascinated with the many nuances of all kinds of human relationships. In our shared desire to more deeply understand our ways of relating, we can often find ourselves thinking about past conversations, or interactions, long after the actual encounter has become a memory. What would I have said if I had it to say over again? How might that have been better? I wonder how our manner of relating would have been different if perhaps....and would that have been better, or worse...and on, and on.... I think that this is a big component of the insane popularity enjoyed by many reality shows and documentaries - people are fascinated to observe human behavior, and interaction, at close range.
The thing is, we become what we think about, physically and mentally. So, if we're using all our energy focusing on what has already happened, or could have happened, or might possibly happen, we miss what's going on in the present moment. We might even miss spotting a potentially terrific opportunity of one kind or another, even if it were right in front of us, waving a giant neon rubber chicken (for example).
So, I would like to challenge you all, and also myself, in the coming days, to intend within ourselves to spend more time each day in the present physical (or spiritual, emotional, etc) moment, and less time in the virtual world of abstraction, the what-ifs and i-wonder-why's of things.
Sometimes, it can be useful to realize that one has enough on one's plate, without giving so much energy to trying to understand something on, perhaps a deeper level than may need to be explored just then. You can always come back to it later, if you choose.
ready...................set.................................be!
