A curious conjunction in my recent efforts to make changes…
On the one hand, there’s the exercise effort. Don’t be sedentary. Move and sweat and get up and go for walks.
On the other hand, there’s the effort to minimize the unnecessary up-and-about that has to do with impatience and touching tech and checking social media and all of that. I want to be able to sit still and not constantly get up and move about in that sense. Remember the mantra? “Slow, stay, stop.”
Stop.
And yet…don’t stop. Get up and move.
And yet…sit still and don’t move.
So much of life is navigating these sorts of tensions. And it can certainly be wearisome to have to navigate them. But that’s better than not being aware, or being aware and not caring and giving up. So I’ll keep at it.