Post 983, Day 295 of 2013
- and 1025 days since I started this blog -
Daily Comment
- and 1025 days since I started this blog -
Why make plans? The future is uncertain, plans can't take into account the changed and different circumstances that always manifest in time. Plans have no reality - they are dreams imposed on fantasies.
One of the fantasies is that we can predict what happens, and by preparing, have some control over which of the possible outcomes future events manifest. This is largely a survival mechanism, useful when the near-future is giving you danger signals, and you mitigate the danger. That's a binary, and is most effective when it is reflexive, and not something you have to mull over.
But extending that concept - reacting to danger - to planning outcomes? Man plans, God laughs.
Caution, or future-proofing, is more comfort than reality. All the people who built bomb shelters in the 50s were planning on surviving a possible (imminent?) nuclear holocaust. Few were harmed by doing this, but it's hard to see the use of this prophylactic exercise.
My retirement planning is somewhat similar. It is likely that I will stop working when I turn 66, but maybe I won't. Maybe I'll work longer, until the Spring, because the road trip I have planned would be much easier then. Or maybe I'll retire earlier if I get fired or laid off from (or just pissed off by) my job.
Or maybe I get hit by a bus, or Alex wins the lottery or makes a lot of money, or I come into a fortune somewhere, somehow. Change of plans.
However, when I don't have to work for a living any more, I would like to check out life in another place. So, I list places that seem like a good fit for living. I have no idea what it will be like to not have to work for money to live on, and am curious to find out how that changes me. If it does.
Today, I still have many attachments. I'm not ready to live a life of contemplation, which I could pretty much do anywhere. If that changes, my plans and expectations, as illusory as they are, will change with them.
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Food and Diet Section
Today's Weight: 206.0 lbs
Food and Diet Section
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| 2013 Daily Weight |
Yesterday's Weight: 206.2 lbs
Day Net Loss/Gain: - 0.2 lbs
Diet Comment
That's flat - margin of error.
Food Log
Breakfast |
| Egg and black bean salad on Spring Mix and cole slaw blend with creamy balsamic dressing (that's why the egg whites aren't white). |
Dinner
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| Wild-caught salmon burger on coconut Paleo toast with cole slaw and mashed cauliflower with butter and herbs (mashed faux-tatoes). |
Coffee: 28 oz. Water: 88+ oz.
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A man walks into the one-stall bathroom, harboring an urgent need to relieve himself after a night of moderate drinking. Much to his dismay, there is another guy already using the facility. Calling on the last vestiges of self control,, the latecomer waits, by the sink, for the first guy to tap out the last drops and make way .- "C'mon man, tap once or twice, that's just hygiene. More than that,why, you're just playin' with yourself!.
ReplyDeleteWe all make plans. We formulate the plan, then act on it when the time is right. No problem. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks of the plan, or the goal thereof. This is your plan and that is the end of it. Unless you keep revisiting it, rolling around in the details. Then it becomes something else. Some kind of pastime.,substituting thought and fantasy for mindfulness.Being mindful in the present does not call for a life of passive contemplation. Quite the opposite, it allows for clear and unbuffered active engagement in what you are being, doing, and what is happening around you..There is nothing to be gained by waiting to work on your being and consciousness until some time in the future. Pay attention, or you will missthe whole thing..
Likes and dislikes, desires and habitual thinking are traps of our conditioned mind, ,distracting us from realizing our true being-essence..Preventing us from having the ability to truly "Love",and truly "Do".
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I can't find much to disagree with here - other than cringing at the old joke at the beginning. I'm pretty sure I didn't say that I considered mindfulness in any way the equivalent to a life of contemplation, and agree that dedicating yourself to contemplation is not the same as living in the moment, with mindfulness.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I don't, right now, find myself being mindful in my minute-minute active time-and-space-bound material life. And I think that a little separation between a society overwhelmed with materialism, coupled with the freedom to enjoy my own, beholden-to-no-one schedule, might be an enabler to be more mindful and attentive in the moment.
i understand. Everything in its own time.
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