THE RIGHT WAY TO DO THINGS WRONG
Spring is just around the corner—so they say. Does that mean Summer is down the next street over parked back a bit back from the street with a radar gun waiting to see. If it can catch you speeding through time? It truly seems to me that some time periods are experienced quickly and some not so much as my younger daughter left the ranks of teen-aged on this week...How quick did that time go? Some times not that quickly if I’m being honest. It does have me thinking about the passage of time a bit today, however, not in that philosophical way I often do, more in the what things seem to go fast and slow in everyday life and what that means in terms of peace and joy.
The list could go on and on, so I’m choosing. My top four time warping events and making a few brief comments about them.
Experiences that seem. Longer than they. Actually. Last
Having the Flu—-
We can be healthy for months and months and years and years hundreds of days and yet if we get the flu for three or four days, those days go by like a snail walking through wet cement with a broken leg.
Prostate Exams—
At a certain age this becomes a part of a routine annual physical. In all the years since these started for me the appointment goes okay except for that moment both the doctor and I know is coming. Depending upon the doctor’s preference, the height of the exam table and your size the position required varies slightly—-and the conversation can be humorous if you want it to be. I mean—sometime ask if there were people in the doctor’s medical class who failed this the first time or. If there were any practice techniques students were asked to engage in prior to their first live patient? No matter what transpires the actual moments of the exam border on the strange no matter how quickly. The exam actually passes. Next year I think I’m going to mention. That I swallowed a half dollar a few days back and ask the doctor if he wouldn’t mind looking a little harder this time.
Things that seem Shorter than they actually are—-
Vacation—
I don’t care if you are cleaning out your garage or visiting the “happiest place on earth,” vacation days always pass more quickly than other types of days...The only long part of vacation days is any part of a vacation day spent in the airport—what airport?— ANY import!
And Finally...
Shaving Time No not daylight savings time—that is a whole other topic., What I’m talking about is the time it takes for my beard hair to need shaved. Okay I know that there about 10,000 hairs on the average human head that require shaving. It’s also true that. A beard and any group of hair has a grain and feeling your skin in a particular direction matters in terms of how rough it feels etc...Nonetheless, this hair grows too fast and requires a lot of motions to take care of. A razor company that rhymes with trick estimates that I takes the average shaver. 100 to 150 strokes with a razor. Per shave. I don’t know if that’s true and I’m not going to count, however it seems like it takes more so not only am I shaving more often because the time between shaves go by quickly, I’m doing it wrong.
Well now I’m sure you have a list of your. Own when it comes to things that don’t quite fit a linear pattern of time—-so what’s that have to do with peace and joy?
For me it has to do with the “flow” of things. I don’t like to think about shaving and I don’t let it enter my Thought process until it needs to happensIn short, I give. Beard growing no attention and thus experience peace about this until that peace is interrupted. the point I’m making is that I don’t appreciate the time in between or pay attention enough. The same goes with the flu...so much of our lives are spent in a healthier than not state and we don’t pay attention to that either. Over the past few years, I’ve been noticing health and time between the things I find that punctuate or puncture. “Normal” time. This awareness allows appreciation and gratitude for such Moore. Of what happens in life. I notice more about the mundane and don’t discount the experiences that used to float right by. Sometimes this raises my anxiety, however, more often than not. It sharpens my joy of little cool experiences such as in the past.couple days when the sun in the sky really felt like it was producing heat on my skin. What that means is it will soon be time to play guitar outside again and the thought of that brings both peace and joy.
In the end I’m suggesting we all search for the little. Things that change time and value the fact that they. Prompt. Us to pay attention to the opportunities to reflect and creat meaning or dismiss the old meanings we have given to things in exchange for. Meanings that work better for. Our growth.
Anyway...it’s time for me to go. For a walk and then when I return home I’ll need to shave. I’m predicting 187 strokes of that razor—I’ll keep. You posted. In the meantime since it’s thank you Thursday I want to express my gratitude. To the. Universe. For slapping mearound a little so that I pay some attention to life as it flows through and past me.
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