Focus
At times the harder we try to look at an object the blurrier it seems to get. Same applies when you're trying to look at yourself and the things around you. It's an automatisation of the things around us. How many really recall how the pen felt the first time you held it? I do, in a way, so I'm sure I can't be the only one, but nowadays I don't feel the pen. Do you? Do we taste the water we drink? Feel the sleep flutter under our eyelids? The movement of the car? Do we see our homes? Our friends? Ourselves?
Sometimes we need to rediscover our basics before we can take off flight to go new places. Perhaps this is where nostalgia comes in - when we can actually see what we have and what we're about to leave behind. You mix the memories with what you are now. The scents, lights, colours and patterns. I find that a lot of times most things make better memories than present. After all we can have an endless amount of memories but we're limited to one present at a time and when our current position is about to fade into something else it can be hard to let go of it.
Perhaps I'm just really prone to become nostaligic. I can miss dreams I've had! But part of the truth is that we have to move forward, noone can live completely in the past. It can be comforting to do so however, for a while. We know how those stories end, and even though knowing the end takes out part of the excitement sometimes the worries of the current time can overshadow the prospect of going anywhere, to be heading anywhere because we don't know what's hidden behind the next curve in the road.
I read an article about a book about happiness from a historic perspective. The book isn't about how to become happy, but rather what's been concidered to be happiness. (Does anyone remember a favorite book of mine by Karin Johannisson, perhaps, hm?) The author said, in the article that "Happiness isn't a destination, it's a way to travel" Yes, I think so. It's not really about to travel it's about how to travel. You can either move away from things or towards things, and no matter how fast you run away from something you'll always know what you're running from and work really hard to not end up there again, but if you're walking towards something, even if you don't end up where you thought you knew, while you were going there that you were going someplace good, that way you travel in a positive way.
So maybe the trick isn't to focus so much, but to focus only on the things that matter at the moment.
Sometimes we need to rediscover our basics before we can take off flight to go new places. Perhaps this is where nostalgia comes in - when we can actually see what we have and what we're about to leave behind. You mix the memories with what you are now. The scents, lights, colours and patterns. I find that a lot of times most things make better memories than present. After all we can have an endless amount of memories but we're limited to one present at a time and when our current position is about to fade into something else it can be hard to let go of it.
Perhaps I'm just really prone to become nostaligic. I can miss dreams I've had! But part of the truth is that we have to move forward, noone can live completely in the past. It can be comforting to do so however, for a while. We know how those stories end, and even though knowing the end takes out part of the excitement sometimes the worries of the current time can overshadow the prospect of going anywhere, to be heading anywhere because we don't know what's hidden behind the next curve in the road.
I read an article about a book about happiness from a historic perspective. The book isn't about how to become happy, but rather what's been concidered to be happiness. (Does anyone remember a favorite book of mine by Karin Johannisson, perhaps, hm?) The author said, in the article that "Happiness isn't a destination, it's a way to travel" Yes, I think so. It's not really about to travel it's about how to travel. You can either move away from things or towards things, and no matter how fast you run away from something you'll always know what you're running from and work really hard to not end up there again, but if you're walking towards something, even if you don't end up where you thought you knew, while you were going there that you were going someplace good, that way you travel in a positive way.
So maybe the trick isn't to focus so much, but to focus only on the things that matter at the moment.
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