|
December 12, 2004Day 2 "Lessons"1. It's ok if you're scared of the other 5 people in the elevator, the other 90 people in the room, or the other 6bil people on this earth. Chances are, all those people are just as scared of you. This I find pretty hysterical and immensetly freeing. When I was a freshman, the DanceTroupe Show Coordinator was scary. The older choreographers were scary. Am I scary to the younger DTers? Probably. Have a little compassion. 1a. People want to look good because they are scared. Have a little compassion. 2. Expectations = premeditated resentment. 3. You have to been unreasonable in order to create a new possibility for yourself. Unreasonable != irrational. Unreasonable just means that if you want to have a fulfilling, exciting relationship, don't give yourself reasons why you can't have that (ie I'm too fat / not interesting / scarred from the past.) When I read May's post this morning, I thought that Lesson #3 was trying to teach the exact opposite of her feeling: "there are things which are only possible as long as you don't think about them." I thought the lessons was "there are things which are only possible as as you do think about them." Then I realized that May's thought and the lessons are the same because in both, you do not stop to think. That's the "reasoning" part. Don't think, don't find a way out of it. Just do it. 4. We love fitting wonderfully complex and mysterious individuals (ie everyone) into molds. Then we interact with the molds, our idea of them, instead of interacting with the person. 5. We love to take our past with us into the future. Don't. Develop your own future without relying on the past for a filter with which to see the world and take action. BE PRESENT. This encompasses several of the above lessons. The idea is that if you are aware of the filter through which you see the world, you will begin to see the world for what it is instead of interpreting each event and action to mean whatever it is you make it mean. I gotta say: listening to people talk from 9am-11pm almost straight through is hard, especially since I'm sleeping from 2am-7am, but it's getting a lot easier, and I'm not nearly as tired as I thought I'd be after 5hrs of sleep. Good things. |
|
