20. I would stop doing anything that doesn't bring me alive, ironically. I think many of us die before we die. I don't mean the ego, but the spirit to live. We die when we live in such a way that kills us slowly, kills our spirit of joy, kills our spirit of adventure, kills our spirit of service. That which brings these alive in me is my measure of a good living.
I love people. I love the idea of making excuses to meet people. I have thought a lot about quitting my job. There are things i love about it and things that i struggle with a lot. I have long wanted to wander the national parks and state parks and coasts and epic trails and camp and sleep under stars and swim in oceans and lakes and rivers and wade in streams. I want to watch ants and butterflies and fox and white-tail deer and trout and dragonflies all go about their business unhindered. I have sat with my dying mother and father and dogs and a deer on a dark highway once. Each experience before and after the transition was unique unlike any other. Each had a profound affect on me that i will never forget. ever. Death has a way of riveting one's attention when experienced first hand.
IN a way, contemplating death and what i would do, is a really good measure of what i should be doing right now. I think that may be Eric's point. What gives us courage to do that without the excuse of an impending death? Maybe as i questioned above, death is here knocking, and we need to wake up to living soon.
On Mar 23, 2022 Debra Myers wrote:
20. I would stop doing anything that doesn't bring me alive, ironically. I think many of us die before we die. I don't mean the ego, but the spirit to live. We die when we live in such a way that kills us slowly, kills our spirit of joy, kills our spirit of adventure, kills our spirit of service. That which brings these alive in me is my measure of a good living.
I love people. I love the idea of making excuses to meet people. I have thought a lot about quitting my job. There are things i love about it and things that i struggle with a lot. I have long wanted to wander the national parks and state parks and coasts and epic trails and camp and sleep under stars and swim in oceans and lakes and rivers and wade in streams. I want to watch ants and butterflies and fox and white-tail deer and trout and dragonflies all go about their business unhindered. I have sat with my dying mother and father and dogs and a deer on a dark highway once. Each experience before and after the transition was unique unlike any other. Each had a profound affect on me that i will never forget. ever. Death has a way of riveting one's attention when experienced first hand.
IN a way, contemplating death and what i would do, is a really good measure of what i should be doing right now. I think that may be Eric's point. What gives us courage to do that without the excuse of an impending death? Maybe as i questioned above, death is here knocking, and we need to wake up to living soon.