Walking meditation, standing trains, grousing
After reading a helpful article on walking medation over at sparkpeople, I gave it a try a few times. It's definitely something I want to keep up, but cripes, it seems to have weird effects. My thoughts stray, of course, but they do that during "traditional" meditation, too, and since I'm essentially a beginner, that's hardly a surprise.
But after walking meditation, I find myself re-grousing old events and unsatisfying situations and things I should have said and didn't. Weird.
On the happy side: my wallet turned up! Six weeks after I lost it (more accurately: after it was stolen).
Only it turns out that it turned up on the same evening it was stolen - the thieves just grabbed the money and then dropped the wallet - and it took the police 6 weeks to contact me even though my adress was in the wallet.
Teutonic thoroughness indeed. Thanks, guys. And during that time, I already spend 20 Euros on getting new temporary papers, which would have been unneccessary if one of our public servants would have typed a letter and informed me - I waited over a week and spend an awful lot of time into calling various lost&found numbers.
Oh, and of course it's not possible to get the wallet to the city I live in, I had to spend the afternoon picking it up. And of course on my way back the trains fell flat for an hour due to a (non-lethal) accident.
So... I'm really glad that I have my wallet back; it's unexpensive, but I bought it in Dublin so it's dear to me, and it saves me the hassle of getting a new ID card.
But I'm seriously not impressed by the police.
And I am very sorry that the super-kind person who found it was in too much of a hurry to leave their name, so I can't thank him / her. Of course, handing in the wallet at the police station inspite of being short with time makes it doubly sweet.
Thank you thank you thank you!
But after walking meditation, I find myself re-grousing old events and unsatisfying situations and things I should have said and didn't. Weird.
On the happy side: my wallet turned up! Six weeks after I lost it (more accurately: after it was stolen).
Only it turns out that it turned up on the same evening it was stolen - the thieves just grabbed the money and then dropped the wallet - and it took the police 6 weeks to contact me even though my adress was in the wallet.
Teutonic thoroughness indeed. Thanks, guys. And during that time, I already spend 20 Euros on getting new temporary papers, which would have been unneccessary if one of our public servants would have typed a letter and informed me - I waited over a week and spend an awful lot of time into calling various lost&found numbers.
Oh, and of course it's not possible to get the wallet to the city I live in, I had to spend the afternoon picking it up. And of course on my way back the trains fell flat for an hour due to a (non-lethal) accident.
So... I'm really glad that I have my wallet back; it's unexpensive, but I bought it in Dublin so it's dear to me, and it saves me the hassle of getting a new ID card.
But I'm seriously not impressed by the police.
And I am very sorry that the super-kind person who found it was in too much of a hurry to leave their name, so I can't thank him / her. Of course, handing in the wallet at the police station inspite of being short with time makes it doubly sweet.
Thank you thank you thank you!