Hi there and thanks for reading my blog. It’s a quiet Saturday and I’m checking out the next quote in my book and reflecting on the past week.
This past week was good. Nothing crazy came up and a couple of good decisions were made. The further I make my way to being happy and at peace, I find that it’s really helpful to focus on these good things in life. We spend to much time thinking about the people that hurt our feelings or the guy who cut us off on our way to Starbucks. I find pleasure in simplicity. That’s what I need to focus on and like any good habit, you have to keep reinforcing the behavior you’re wanting to change.
The opposite of a true statement is a false statement, but the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr (paraphrased)
Profound truths … This is something I think I miss in life. Just like what I mentioned above. The profound truth above is just being happy in the present but if you don’t get to that there are so many other profound truths out there. For example, if you make a mistake you can learn from it. You’re not a failure or the many other ‘judgments’ you can pass on yourself. Any great scientist had to make mistakes in order to progress forward. The creation and development of medicine, technology, language have all gone through change because of mistakes. Why do you think they call it practicing medicine or the blue screen of death exists on your Windows computer. Mistakes were made and learning happened.
Another topic that’s coming up in life right now is purging all the ‘stuff’ you don’t use. I mean I keep looking at my closet and it’s just a tad bit overwhelming to think about making 2 or three piles. That’s what I need to do though. You know it just occurred to me also that I don’t have to do it all at once. Plus just the fact that I would make some progress would make feel better about it. We surround ourselves with material good because we think it improves us. I know I’ve been guilty of it from time to time. I can say an example is this for myself is my iPhone 11 Pro Max.
I’m not sentimental about clothing so there shouldn’t be any emotional stress about letting go of the clothes. Now that’s not to say there are no items in my closets that are going to hold some memory. It’s going to be a little more difficult to see that I’ll have the memory regardless of whether I have the actual item in question. Do I really need to drag around the actual item? I think the biggest challenge won’t be emotional like a memory but the emotional angst of loss. “I’ll need that someday” will be the thought that I have to confront. Even just writing that out makes me cringe a little.
In case you’re interested here’s the book of quotes I’m using for ‘mind-blowing wisdom’.
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