Life as a standing wave

[drscott]

[from a comment I left for furfairy: discuss]

If you persist in framing everything that happens with a negative script, life hardly seems worth living.

It helps me to think this way: I am an organized pattern of thoughts embodied in a chemical/electrical matrix which is constantly decaying and being renewed through its strength of pattern. Most of the atoms in my body are different than the ones of my body ten years ago, and similarly my thoughts and memories are more copies of what was than originals. I am only a cousin of the man and boy I once was. I am constantly losing, and constantly gaining; and if I think if what was and what I have lost and don't think of what will be and what I am gaining, I will miss the glory that is life, and cower from the action that is needed to renew myself.

Learning to enjoy the present -- and acting to realize a better future instead of dwelling on the losses of the past -- helps a lot.

Comments

Re: Having read this yesterday

[poodler.livejournal.com]

Good to hear (that you're staying). In 2003 my partner and I ripped down and rebuilt our house (he's an architect) and while I could easily walk away from all we've done (I like projects) it's nice coming home to a space I appreciate. In good time I'll be getting pics of our kitchen up on LJ (when we finally get around to finishing the walls [Japanese stucco] and backsplash [tile as yet undetermined]). Glen designed the cabinets around stools we bought at Pottery Barn, asian in flavor, and with the help of as many Japanse resoursce books as I was able to find. Cabinets in clear coated maple. They have an understated simplicity similar to yours.
I'll send you a clothespin for reading my blogs- thanks for nice compliments, though.