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it occurred to me earlier today... (pg. 3)
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| lücid |
i'm exactly the same way. i'm constantly thinking about what i'm going to do next weekend, next month, next year... making plans for all the things i want to accomplish. today i was shopping for a kitchen island for a place i'm not even going to be completely moved into for over a month! but it's mostly when i'm stuck doing my routine daily activities that i seem to have a hard time appreciating - showering, getting dressed, driving to work, working, driving home, doing laundry, etc.
my moments of clarity and solace come when i've got no distractions and i can just focus on the world around me. laying in the dark with headphones on or walking/hiking around outside are 2 specific situations where i can just stop thinking and lose myself in the music i'm listening to or the scenery around me.
and as much as i think about and overanalyze what i want to do, i'm still absolutely terrible at making plans. |
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| Slylee |
| quote: | Originally posted by lücid
i'm exactly the same way. i'm constantly thinking about what i'm going to do next weekend, next month, next year... making plans for all the things i want to accomplish. today i was shopping for a kitchen island for a place i'm not even going to be completely moved into for over a month! but it's mostly when i'm stuck doing my routine daily activities that i seem to have a hard time appreciating - showering, getting dressed, driving to work, working, driving home, doing laundry, etc.
my moments of clarity and solace come when i've got no distractions and i can just focus on the world around me. laying in the dark with headphones on or walking/hiking around outside are 2 specific situations where i can just stop thinking and lose myself in the music i'm listening to or the scenery around me.
and as much as i think about and overanalyze what i want to do, i'm still absolutely terrible at making plans. |
plus 1, naturally myra lol |
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| Slylee |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigitalPhoenix
it's called "growing older and appreciating things" get used to it...
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i'm actually posting about doing the exact opposite. lol i'm NOT appreciating things cuz i'm not making the time to. |
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| lücid |
LOL, i also just remembered... after biking home on Saturday night i was so exhausted when i walked into the house that i immediately plopped down on the floor in the dining room and laid there for a long time. the lights were off but i just stared at the ceiling thinking about how interesting the dining room ceiling looked from a different perspective, and how the room felt so much larger.
it was definitely one of those random "let's think about the pointless stuff right in front of me" moments. Rob thought i was on shrooms. :stongue: |
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| Slylee |
| quote: | Originally posted by lücid
LOL, i also just remembered... after biking home on Saturday night i was so exhausted when i walked into the house that i immediately plopped down on the floor in the dining room and laid there for a long time. the lights were off but i just stared at the ceiling thinking about how interesting the dining room ceiling looked from a different perspective, and how the room felt so much larger.
it was definitely one of those random "let's think about the pointless stuff right in front of me" moments. Rob thought i was on shrooms. :stongue: |
lol
yea i'm the same with the no distractions thing...i would imagine everyone is like that though.
sometimes i do random little "think of pointless stuff in front of me" too, but it's usally when i'm sitting at a long red light and i notice a bird chillin on the sidewalk just hopping around, looking for lol. i love watching birds, it's relaxing. |
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| Zewad |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
i love watching birds, it's relaxing. |
heh,.. where is sushi and his birds |
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| iammesol |
| raped in seaweed and digesting in my stomach |
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| Enigmatic XTC |
I had an awesome "appreciating the moment" moment last night. i was driving back from my friends house on a semi-rural road with trees on both sides. A track i recently made that features alison krauss was on and it was kind of foggy out. As i was going up over a hill another car was coming from the other side and their headlights pointed over the top of the hill shining beams of light through the fog. For just a split second everything looked so perfect that it literally appeared that i was looking at a painting and time seemed to stop. I was able to hold the moment for a minute until the other car broke the top of the hill, but as soon as it was over i remember thinking "i'm going to remember this for the rest of my life".
c0r version-appreciating the moment is cool |
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| Slylee |
| we have wild parrots in ft. lauderdale it's awesome. there's always a huge flock of big green ones flying around me in the mornings squawking really loudly when i walk my dog. there's also a little woodpecker i saw a couple of times. well actually i heard it first and i was like, "wtf is that a woodpecker i hear?" and then i looked around the noise and found him...banging his beek into a tree.:stongue: |
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| kadomony |
| inb4 eckhart tolle |
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| Slylee |
| quote: | Originally posted by Enigmatic XTC
I had an awesome "appreciating the moment" moment last night. i was driving back from my friends house on a semi-rural road with trees on both sides. A track i recently made that features alison krauss was on and it was kind of foggy out. As i was going up over a hill another car was coming from the other side and their headlights pointed over the top of the hill shining beams of light through the fog. For just a split second everything looked so perfect that it literally appeared that i was looking at a painting and time seemed to stop. I was able to hold the moment for a minute until the other car broke the top of the hill, but as soon as it was over i remember thinking "i'm going to remember this for the rest of my life".
c0r version-appreciating the moment is cool |
lol cool
now that i'm thinking about it, i guess i do have a lot of little moments like that, but i feel like my stressed out overplanning, fast fwd-ish life is more dominant and i want to try to change that.
i'll tell you one thing is for sure and that is that i seriously need a ing vacation. i mean like on an exotic beach, drink in hand...doing absolutely nothing. i really need to plan this i don't care if i go alone. it would probably be cooler if i did. |
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