Are you living with your eyes shut?
We’re our own worst enemies. We push ourselves harder and harder. We expect to get three times the work done in a third of the time. Then we berate ourselves when our immune systems start failing us and when we’re not achieving what we wanted to. Why? Because we think we’re super-human? Probably. The more […]
So many of us are walking through lives with our eyes shut. Tasks become automated, we can’t remember eating our breakfast though we can vaguely remember what we ate and everything starts to become a to-do list item.
Check. Cross Off. Leave for another day.
We end the day thinking about tomorrow. We start the next day already feeling behind.
I know I’ve spent days of my life with my eyes shut. I haven’t seen anyone I’ve passed. I’ve been so involved in creating the future that I’ve forgotten that the present is a work in progress.
We see everything on macro-level. We barely spend any time thinking about the bigger picture.
It’s said that the attention is in the detail. I care to disagree.
Stuck
When we get bogged down in the details, we often lose the purpose that led us there in the first place.
We get stuck in routines. We start to make excuses. We start to justify choices that neither serve us or make us happy.
It’s like the age old fear of waking up one day, wondering who took over your life and how you got there.
I know I don’t want that.I want to look back and think about the risks I took. I want to remember the bold moves I made. I want to reminisce and think, yeah, that was me.
So I want to take a stand right now for living with our eyes wide open. Let’s bask in the boring, let’s make joyful the things we do on autopilot, and let’s make decisions that pry open our vision and make us feel alive.
Go dance in the rain, get off the bus at the wrong stop, cancel all plans for the weekend and spend time with nature.
Go to a stranger’s wedding, get a tattoo, get to bed early and wake up for the sunrise.
Go make a thank you card for a friend, just because, go write out those crazy ideas for your solar panel range of dog coats, go take a cold shower.
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It’s only when we shake shit up that we start to open our eyes.