53 degrees this morning. Walk 46:51 minutes
I am beginning to wonder about my walk. My distance this morning is, I thought, the same as I used to walk, but I must be somehow adding a considerable length to it to make it 10 minutes more!
Actually, I can prove it if I am walking more now, just by checking my iPhone when I last walked (before my hiatus due to my sore throat) and now. Isn’t technology great!
Of course, if my distance is the same, I have wonder why my time is so much more (10 minutes of a 36 minute walk is a lot) or if it is more now, I have to wonder what my route was that I am not remembering!! I’m not sure which is worse!
Actually, my route, while simple, does include some “doubling back” that I may not have done before.
Listening to the book on philosophy. One part I remember is the theory that there is no such thing as empty space, since if space is empty, it does not exist.
Later philosophers postulated that this couldn’t be true, so they stated there were “voids” and when a “void” existed, atoms rushed to fill the void. Ok.
Regardless of how their theories look today, you have to admire them for thinking so deeply about such concepts without any real way of studying them to discover elements of their theories which may be right or wrong.
Looking forward to my next book.
That reminds me, in what I heard this morning, one of the concepts was that “happiness is not wanting anything more”, perhaps in other words, “balance is happiness” and when reality and expectations are in balance, a person is happy, or at least satisfied.
I have to agree with a lot of that idea, that if you can balance your expectations and reality, you can at least save a lot of grief by now wanting more all the time.
I think that helps explain the situations when someone literally has more money than they ever can spend, but actually commit criminal acts to get more, even if it is a relatively small amount.
I assume if your expectations and wants are always growing, you will never be satisfied or at peace.
Of course, on the other side, if you don’t have expectations of wanting to improve your situation, you won’t have the incentive to advance or change.
I have found when it is time for you to change, something external seems to happen to push the change, even if you (in a figurative sense) are satisfied with the status quo.
Just thinking this morning about the times in my life when I have been forced to change the status quo (moving to another town as a child etc.). What they say about “always being for the better” quite frankly isn’t true. Sometimes, it isn’t for the better and no platitudes will make up for that.
On the other hand, if you don’t change, something will happen to push you into change, so perhaps it is better to initiate your own change and have some control over it!
I’m not sure what that has to do with controlling your expectations Expectations are important, so I guess it all falls back to being able to control your expectations and use it as an incentive, but don’t get greedy!
I guess if you get greedy, that is when you get “out of balance” and dissatisfied, so the importance of “balance” illustrates itself again.
That’s it for now, Tuesday, March 29 2016.
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