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Better Find Out Before Your Time’s Out WTF
If I ruled the world we would all know the truth
Grey sky. Cold air. Radio silence.
It was Valentine’s Day — Monday, and I did not feel the love in the room. I had just returned from a run; the day could go off the rails. There were other possibilities.
Like the one I experienced at that moment.
I remembered I had a choice. At other times I might have shut it down, ordered in, and fired up one of the many streaming services I used to shuttle be from wakefulness to hibernation escapism.
I felt lonely and needy. I knew these were sensations. I would try to make them opportunities.
Attend to what is
It’s best to live in harmony with what is.
Epictetus wrote about this. He goes into detail about the how of it. I prefer a different shorthand, though. I perceive it as a challenge of two parts — read the room and zoom out.
Read the room — part one.
To read the room is to focus your attention with intention.
Now is an excellent time to ask: where are you? I don’t mean where your body is. Where is the part that reads these words and has attention? Are you in your head…
