Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
[Mary Oliver]
Few instructions I’ve been
given over my Life are this clear. This simple. This comprehensive. I think
this is pretty much right up there with “chop wood carry water” for how I
choose to live. I was writing earlier about writing practise. Why DO I DO it?!
Or perhaps I mean Why I DO it.
Anyway, when I pay attention
to myself. My thoughtsandfeelings about this or that, I am always glad of it.
NOT always straightaway, but within a stretch of time at least. Often sooner.
We really teach
ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be
they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and
hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention. [Alexander
Volkov]
This makes such sense to me. I am a learner. I live to learn
is what I sometimes think. Whenever I’m having a hard time BEing alive I
especially think that I have always found JOY in learning. Sometimes I have
learnt harder things and NOT felt so warm and fuzzy about it; yet I am mostly ALWAYS
glad of the chance to stretch my mind and bend my silly little certainties.
I love you, Currie
1 comment:
Paying attention is what makes life interesting. I always know that if my days are slipping by practically unnoticed then things are not going well in my life and I am living too much in my head, you know? It's truly all the little things that bring me joy...like Karma purring on my chest. :)
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