The really important kind of freedom involves
attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to
care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad
petty little unsexy ways, every day. [David
Foster Wallace, This Is Water]
Recuperating brings unusual self-awareness, highlighting the
distance BEtween what I’d thought was/is
How I AM and Where I AM Now. It brings confusion and misunderstanding and too
much sensitivity, like walking barefoot over glass.
Mostly, though, it feels empty and less. Like NOT BEing
Enough. And BEing a disappointment. Those “myriad petty little unsexy ways” DO
make Life much nicer, if I can BE so bold to say…
The aim of life is to live, and to live
means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. [Henry Miller]
I agree, the aim of Life is to live, yet living is more than just BEing Aware. It is BEing open and willing, too. It is knowing that all Life comes to pass. It is holding on while always Letting Go.
Every act of conscious
learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem.
That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance,
learn so easily. [Thomas
Szasz]
What a deLIGHTfull concept for riding these choppy water waves.
I love you, Currie
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