Well, it’s been a while. I took a little break to work on the book, and then got lost. I also found that, as some people who visit actually know who I am, what I choose to write as well as that that I don’t can be hurtful to others with active imaginations. So, for those of you who know me as well as those who don’t, should I write something that concerns you feel free to comment and should I not write something that concerns you I would be glad to help you start your own site.
This is actually not Facebook. It’s just a place where I put thoughts that I cannot get out of my head. For some crazy reason it’s gotten moderately popular even though I have not written in a while. So, just relax. I will be fine if you simply choose to visit. However, should you decide to agree with everything I write and remain indifferent to everything that I do not then all the better.
Most recently I haven thinking about time, relationships, and of-course the Four Noble Truths. It seems that beginning a relationship with an understanding of the impermanence of everything presents a challenge. Someone, if not both persons involved, will reserve their emotions and/or curse the amount that they secretly have invested in an effort to be protected from the inevitable – change. This lack of investment limits return and eventually, be it a few days, months, or years, may become a self-fulfilling prophesy or in any case hasten the inevitable while limiting the amount of enjoyment either party receives from the underlying emotional phenomena. However, I do not really feel like talking about relationships. I feel like talking about coffee.
I refuse to sweeten my coffee, though I would like to, because it will either grow cold or be consumed. Right now, though I have an excellent cup of coffee that I could enjoy, I am afraid that should I make it better I will lament the rest of the day that it is no longer with me. So, rather than add a little sugar, essentially going all in to make it the best cup of coffee I can and enjoying it that much more, I would rather it just be a good cup to save myself from the pain of loss.
Listen!
We do not have much time here. Things change. Accept the beauty in that. Accept the challenge. And, allow yourself to go all in. Feel. Do not risk this real moment in an effort to protect an undefined future.
Enjoy this moment for as long as it lasts.
A beautiful sunset at the end of a good day, it is a sad thing? Would the same beautiful sunset at the end of a bad day be a good thing? Should we enjoy one and not the other? Are they not both beautiful sunsets? Or, should we not take the time to enjoy either because it very may well be the last beautiful sunset we ever see and it will be over soon? Or, maybe we should play it safe and just agree that they are both beautiful sunsets without any enjoyment in the matter at all and in this way limit our investment and therefore our loss?
Enjoy the damn sunset. Enjoy the colors and the clouds from the moment the sky lights-up to the last rays. Then go to Mike’s Place with some friends and enjoy a good meal and good company without holding back even while knowing that the meal will at some point be over. And laugh and joke on the sherut on the way home knowing that the trip will at some point be over. And enjoy saying goodby to your friends at the bus stop and the walk home though they will both also end. And enjoy the next day and the day after though they will both also one day just be memories.
We do not have much time here!
OK, that’s enough for today. I think I am going to order another cup of coffee. This one has grown cold and actually, though I enjoyed some of it, it could have been better.
And, Happy Birthday, to my sister Lisa. Love you.
Thanks for stopping by.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014