Is your need to get somewhere stopping you from being here?
Richard Cooke got me thinking with a post on his i-Change blog. He talks about how it feels to have lost the familiar milestones and landmarks of change; to be out in the featureless plains of your life. It got me thinking about time, change and the present moment. I answered:
“I used to wonder what would happen if I shut myself in a room without windows, or clocks, or routine or any familiar landmarks of change.
My theory was that if I removed all signs of change then time itself would become meaningless and strangely elastic. Who knows?
But maybe that’s a bit of what happens when we move out of the routine landscape of change (school runs, workdays, weekdays and weekends…) – when we move from one stage of our lives into another?
You asked how people deal with this lack of the signs of progress. At the risk of being philosophical (lols – hey, you DID categorise this post as ‘Values and Philosophy’)…
I remember once someone saying to me “I like to keep busy, it passes the time”. Duh? To what? Death?
I’m really not in a hurry any more to be anywhere other than here and now, in the moment. I used to be, but not so much any more. It’s not always easy, but the result is that I don’t worry about change or progress because I’m not so attached to getting from somewhere to somewhere.”
Sam,
I am inclined to agree with you but find it strange that I find it hard to tell if I am making progress in accepting standing still… I do feel off the map somewhat now.
I also agree that ‘being in the moment’ is a very powerful state and one I certainly try to attain.
I don’t believe in ‘keeping busy’ either, more in being still
Sam,
I am inclined to agree with you but find it strange that I find it hard to tell if I am making progress in accepting standing still… I do feel off the map somewhat now.
I also agree that ‘being in the moment’ is a very powerful state and one I certainly try to attain.
I don’t believe in ‘keeping busy’ either, more in being still