Mind the gap. That was the line i saw in the book, daring greatly. Then, at the meditation retreat Mr Patrick mentioned that line as well.
It's a beautiful thing to be mindful of our lives, and how we are actually living it.
No, I don't mean how we thought we are living it, but how we are living it.
That's where the gap comes in.
Interestingly, it took a long time for the understanding to kick in, what I thought is not actually what is really going on.
Till this very day, there is still a space I try to retain between what I thought vs what is actually happening.
As time goes by, experiences happened, and all those, the space is getting more crucial, much more important, and in fact, life saving, blimey.
There is this fact of uncertainty, that it could go "wrong", why that "", because what went wrong might not be wrong, but it is beyond what our mind decides as right, hence wrong. In reality, it might not be wrong after all, just beyond expectations, limits of our minds, and also beyond recognition. Hence, just beyond.
There is this deep seated fear when the slight hint of uncertainty would start to lift its veil and be able to catch a glimpse of it. This fear is only there when one is near the edge of ones comfort zone, or, already outside of it.
Within the comfort zone, well, we always would think the reason we are not feeling as happy as we thought we should is because things aren't still going the way we had planned. Hence all our efforts and energies would be diverted towards more effort in trying to make things right. We thought they are all within our grasp and control. Interesting turn of life, don't you think so? Cheers.
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