Focus pocus

[sethisalive]

I lost focus a bit this weekend, starting Saturday morning, ending an hour or so ago. There are people and situations who depend on me, or people who would like to depend on me, or people who I would like to depend on me, who I care about deeply and am usually there for....but I experienced an outage. Like a web server. I experienced a Denial Of

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[alcarilinque]

I have to say that I find it rather classy to use DOS to describe something of a more biological nature.

[sethisalive]

LOL! :-D

[queueball]

"God, do I ever want it to happen - it's just this transition now, the waiting period...."

"This is the key point about thresholds: they are not the place of life and not the place of death.... Anything of moment takes place in these interstices - in the tunnels and passages and waiting periods. They are indispensable and yet must be kept tangential.

"It takes considerable courage to stay as long as needed in a place between, and it requires a degree of holy foolishness to seek one out."

- Thomas Moore, "Neither Here Nor There," Parabola 25:1 (Feb. 2000)

"The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain."

- G'Kar

[sethisalive]

Thanks, Q. :-) I was looking for the appropriate knowledge to deal with my current, knowingly transient splashes of irrational pain and worry. Some pain is good, rational, and we learn from it---as is some stress, or eustress--but some is just plain foolish, and I knew it, but couldn't help but to dwell in it for lack of a conscious alternative. Engaging with life, dodging its bullets, is always about seeing the alternatives, the options, the paths less traveled--not just in action but also in knowledge. Thanks for showing me a path I couldn't see :)