In The Blink Of An Eye
In my little corner of Hertfordshire, the sun is shining and the sky is blue and the temperature outside is probably about zero degrees Celsius. Can you imagine all that clear cold air rushing into your lungs? Lovely. It makes you feel good to be alive. It's the sort of weather that calls me to go outside for a walk. Especially if it's been snowing and I walk where 'no man has ever walked before'. It gives me such a feeling of power – almost as much power as having possession of the TV remote control.
Human beings are incredible creatures. It is generally known that women can multi-task very easily. The jury is still out on whether men have this talent too. But we all can do some things equally as well as each other.
If we close our eyes, we can imagine anything, create anything in our minds and so our world gets bigger. In the blink of an eye we can imagine being on a yacht in the Mediterranean, on beach in the Seychelles, standing on top of mountain admiring the magnificent scenery of Scotland and so much more. When we open our eyes, we contract our world to what we can see around us. We can go from wherever we want to be, back to being here, where we sit or stand, in the blink of an eye.
We always walk facing where we are going, (unless you are like the bored 10year old I once knew, who rode his bike backwards round the block). We were always told as children 'look where you are going'. This was better advice than you realise. We look in front of us and yet our minds so often wander to the past. This is one of the amazing abilities of our mind, we can do two things at once.
If we are going on an unknown journey (we could call it an adventure), we plan the route so we get there the shortest and easiest way. And yet, sometimes we don't seem to do that with our lives. We seem to go about our daily business but 'live' in the past or worry about the future. The same as the adventure we planned, we should focus on where we are going and not where we've been, otherwise we can get very lost in our lives.
Philosophy is great stuff, but the sun and the snow are calling. Be back another time.
Human beings are incredible creatures. It is generally known that women can multi-task very easily. The jury is still out on whether men have this talent too. But we all can do some things equally as well as each other.
If we close our eyes, we can imagine anything, create anything in our minds and so our world gets bigger. In the blink of an eye we can imagine being on a yacht in the Mediterranean, on beach in the Seychelles, standing on top of mountain admiring the magnificent scenery of Scotland and so much more. When we open our eyes, we contract our world to what we can see around us. We can go from wherever we want to be, back to being here, where we sit or stand, in the blink of an eye.
We always walk facing where we are going, (unless you are like the bored 10year old I once knew, who rode his bike backwards round the block). We were always told as children 'look where you are going'. This was better advice than you realise. We look in front of us and yet our minds so often wander to the past. This is one of the amazing abilities of our mind, we can do two things at once.
If we are going on an unknown journey (we could call it an adventure), we plan the route so we get there the shortest and easiest way. And yet, sometimes we don't seem to do that with our lives. We seem to go about our daily business but 'live' in the past or worry about the future. The same as the adventure we planned, we should focus on where we are going and not where we've been, otherwise we can get very lost in our lives.
Philosophy is great stuff, but the sun and the snow are calling. Be back another time.