Think About It

Goodness, it's been a crazy day.  I knew it was going to be a day full of surprises when it started off with me walking into the bathroom, and suddenly discovering a large sharp pin with my foot.  You cringe because it sounds painful.  It was.  So, I'm just hobbling around throughout the day, and then I twisted my already shattered ankle during gymnastics class.  If it looks like I'm walking funny, it's because I am.

Gymnastics class is nuts.  So, I have never done any kind of attempt at a back handspring in my life (nor has anyone else in the class), and they're just like "Hey, everybody, here's this incline.  Go up the incline, go up into a handstand, then as you come back down, do a back handspring down the incline!"  HA.  They're trying to get me walking around on my hands when I haven't even been asked to do an effective handstand without a spotter yet.  I am learning much about how ineffective it is to try to learn more complicated things without mastering the basics first.  It just ends in injury.

I am learning in my philosophy class about concepts such as happiness, virtue, and pleasure as seen through the eyes of Aristotle.  At first I was simply annoyed at the contradiction that he posed in stating that happiness is found in the unimpeded and infinite ability to perform virtuous actions, but then he says the happiest life is the life of contemplation.  Of all things to "do," contemplation seems the least qualified to be called an action.  But I had definitely just been taking the opportunity to simply contemplate for granted.  Now, with my extremely busy lifestyle, I rarely have time to just think to myself.  I'm always working or in class or doing homework or finishing big projects for other people...so times to just stop and think simply what I want to think about are precious.  I look forward to the time around midnight where I can just turn everything off and hide away from everyone and just think for a second.

I think that's one of the reasons for many of the terrible things we are seeing in today's society.  We live in a world of go-go-go...who has time to think anymore?  Really, it's getting harder to do for us as a society.  When we have time to think, we do it through browsing facebook or exploring pinterest or watching a movie... We rarely just stop and put everything away but ourselves and just think.  But it is one of the most rewarding things to be able to do that each day!  It makes you more successful, too.

I've found a link that will require you to do absolutely nothing for just two minutes.  Click on it there.  Just a simple two minutes.

If you need to schedule in short periods of time to do nothing, DO IT.  I've started to.  I have a little alarm on my phone that tells me when I need to stop for at least to minutes and just think.  It's brilliant.  Even in the busyness of all I do...I'm always looking forward for that alarm to ring.