Filling The Day
Today is the official beginning of summer over here. While it's getting cosier and warmer each day, I can hardly believe that this year is almost over. It has to be the fastest year I've ever lived! Am I getting older, or am I getting busier, to feel this way?
With so many things to do, everyday just spins. Each day is like an empty box, waiting to be filled. We can pack the box with treasures, or load it down with ballast. Many things we put in by habit, without even thinking, because it is easy and comfortable, and it's the way we've always lived.
Yet once the box for today is packed, that's it. You can't take anything out, nor put anything else back in. Once the day is done, the treasures you could have had are either yours or not yours. Tomorrow dawns early, another box duly arrives at the door. What are you going to fill in that box?
A tip I've learnt recently through my meditation on how to make each day valuable is, to give a theme to each day of the week, say Peace for Monday, Love for Tuesday, Power for Wednesday and so on, and stuff the theme into the activities during the day and to remain concious of it. In this way we live each day with treasures.
Each day comes fresh. Make them all special. May your day be filled with joy, peace and love!
posted by Passion @ 6:15 pm
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You have an awesome blog Passion City :)
"Yet once the box for today is packed, that's it. You can't take anything out, nor put anything else back in. Once the day is done, the treasures you could have had are either yours or not yours. Tomorrow dawns early, another box duly arrives at the door. What are you going to fill in that box?"
This is so true. It's up to us to make the right choices in our lives. I guess ultimately we have a choice of either making the best of our current situation or being overwhelmed by it (if we are going through difficulties).
And just a small comment on one of your previous posts, regarding the simple things being really fun as opposed to focusing only on end ticket things like an over seas holiday etc.;
I have been thinking about that kind of thing too...maybe you're right. I mean, I was wondering what all this work stuff was for if everything is ultimately transient, impermanent and ultimately un-satisfactory...but I think you've now found the solution.
It's not about saving up feeling etc for a future moment; it's about making each little 'present' moment fun/interesting. You're right, it doesn't take much to hit some badminton or tennis balls around but when you are with people you like to be with, those simple things are often the most fun things to do.
I mean, isn't that all that we did when we were kids?
I remember being so excited about flying a kite with my dad. It's not like the kite did much, but it fun to watch the kite be assembled and then together trying to fly it. So simple, and yet so fun.
Maybe it is just too easy for us to lose sight of what is 'really' fun when we are bombarded by the media into telling us what we should want, to make us happy and fulfilled.
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