Post 1445, Day 161 of 2015
- 1,622 days since I started this blog -
- 1,622 days since I started this blog -
Daily Comment
Light load today. Still tired, though. Still have commitments after work. Still happy. Still grateful.
Although I was challenged by yesterday's rehearsal, at which nothing really got done, and there wasn't even much playing. At one point, I, quite rudely, started playing Sudoku on my iPad. I was bored and frustrated.
I also looked at my summer gigging schedule and, to my dismay, I don't have much booked July and August. Last year I was incredibly busy during the season.
I wish I could split the difference. Still, it is forward-looking, and that means I have no idea how it will turn out. It sure isn't the same as enjoying what's going on right now. (Well, I'm at work, not much to 'enjoy', but I'm at ease, at peace and mindful of what is going on right now). So all is good.
Of course, whenever you're able to be aware in the moment, things are good.
And, while, as has been pointed out, joy and happiness are two different things, they aren't completely unrelated, and there isn't a good reason I can think of why you can't be happy and joyful at the same time. That's the basis of my life here in Syracuse.
Playing accesses the joy of my life for me, brings me right into the moment, the non-thinking, non-caring total-participation state in now.
That I can access that, and do it in a social context like a band or a jam, makes me happy. I do what I perceive I need to, to make those times happen.
I'm grateful that they happen a lot.
Food and Diet Section
Today's Weight: 206.6 lbs
Today's Weight: 206.6 lbs
Previous Weight (6/9): 207.2 lbs
Day Net Loss/Gain: - 0.6 lbs
Diet Comment
Ongoing post-weekend correction. Nothing more.Diet Comment
A Quest bar.
Lunch
At Core:
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| Chicken Cobb salad (shredded kale and romaine, grilled chicken, avocado, bacon, hard-cooked egg, bleu cheese dressing). Not shown: A cup of Hearty (beef and pork) bone broth. |
A Quest bar.
Grilled pork loin, grilled zucchini and peppers, and a salad of kale, chard, spinach, cabbage and shaved parmesan with balsamic vinaigrette.
Snack
Pepperoni.
Liquid Intake
Coffee: 28 oz. Water: 100+ oz. and a shot of Jameson's Irish whiskey
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Believe it or not- but I have felt joy. lol.
ReplyDeleteTrying to say something nice to people all the time.
doing pretty well
Joy exists in us all the time - but is difficult to access when we get caught up in externals, so I find it entirely believable that you have felt joy - it would be unbelievable if you claimed that you never did!
DeleteI think when you act in a positive way, you feel it internally, and it changes the way you feel. Just smiling has, as you know, been shown to trigger all sorts of biochemical changes linked to psycho-neuro positive feelings.
As always, love you (and you, and you, and you.... )
i, too, can think of no reason that you can't feel joy and happiness at the same time. Although different (joy is there all the "time" whether we are aware of it or not, happiness comes and goes being replaced with other emotions, is mood and circumstance dependent) they don't cancel each other out. i don't believe that you can "make those things happen", you can only psychologically position yourself to recognize and experience being joyous, and feeling happy.
ReplyDelete- CompassionLoveLight -
sorry to misquote you. it should read - "make those times happen".
DeleteCLL
Completely agree. But you know that.
Deletei'm recommending this video - (on TED.com)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ted.com/talks/donald_hoffman_do_we_see_reality_as_it_is
- although i think he puts too much faith in Logic and Math for answering our question
For human beings, there will always be the Mystery.
LightLoveCompassion
love you all
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