the there and then
human beings have a tendency to nest, to create havens of permanence in a world of constant change. it's stable, it's calming, it's.....unnatural. if life is constatly pushing us to change, change, change (which , i believe, it truly is), why are we always ready to impede the world's progress?
i am 100% a creature of habit. no one likes their routine as much as OCD me. my days are planned down to the minute. how, then, can i expect to live in the moment? i'm setting myself up for failure here. a life without routine is one lived truly in the moment, because the current moment is all you really know.
there was a point last night (several points in the past few weeks, in fact) at which i totally and completely let go of all sense of time and place. labels of days and months became irrelevant awhile ago, and now the boundaries of city and state have also gone by the wayside. i'm at a home (new orleans) away from home (fairhope, AL) away from home (yulee, FL) away from home (lakewood), and this being thrice-removed has provided me the opportunity to live in a blissful state of just existing. it's easy to focus on the here and now when that's the only thing remaining constant: no matter where i go i'm HERE, no matter what i do it's NOW.
i am 100% a creature of habit. no one likes their routine as much as OCD me. my days are planned down to the minute. how, then, can i expect to live in the moment? i'm setting myself up for failure here. a life without routine is one lived truly in the moment, because the current moment is all you really know.
there was a point last night (several points in the past few weeks, in fact) at which i totally and completely let go of all sense of time and place. labels of days and months became irrelevant awhile ago, and now the boundaries of city and state have also gone by the wayside. i'm at a home (new orleans) away from home (fairhope, AL) away from home (yulee, FL) away from home (lakewood), and this being thrice-removed has provided me the opportunity to live in a blissful state of just existing. it's easy to focus on the here and now when that's the only thing remaining constant: no matter where i go i'm HERE, no matter what i do it's NOW.