My sister was teasing me the other day. The conversation went something like...
L. "How's it going?"
D. "Not bad... I'm extremely tired, work is busy. Oh, did I tell you I started a pottery class on Thursday?"
L. "Really? Wow!"
D. "Yah - it's really neat."
L. "Well, aren't you turning into quite the Renaissance Man!"
D. "Huh?"
L. "First an English course, now Pottery!"
Renaissance Man. That's funny!
I found her observation rather telling. She NOTICED a change in my behaviour. Was it really all that drastic? Have I been noticeably sitting around like a lump "DOING NOTHING", hence taking a couple courses makes it APPEAR I'm all of a sudden DOING - or DOING differently?
Lately I've felt this need to DO more and THINK less. As I write this I'm thinking... (yah, go figure!) maybe here is where I can do my "thinking" and in my "real-world" time I can be "doing".
All this said, I had a chat with R. the other day. She said "But THINKING is DOING! When you're THINKING, you're pondering the possibilities of action."
Maybe my next course will be Philosophy.
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- Turtle Guy
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- English student, Pottery enthusiast, Yoga novice and lover of all people. I make friends over a warm handshake and a beverage. I discover, every day, someone willing to help me along my path.
7 comments:
I think therefore I do. LOL
Sounds to me like you are enjoying a variety of experiences in life. I think that is mentally healthy. Good for you.
In the months I've been visiting you here, I've always found you to be quite adept at the pondering part. I think it is wonderful you are finding ways to stretching the doing part of yourself. I would love to take a pottery class, but I keep putting it off. Instead I keep taking writing classes. My pondering part needs constant reenergizing.
Philosophy can sometimes be weirdly binding. I remember a college professor, long ago, telling me that we never actually move. I asked him how that could be, and he said:
"In order to take one step, we have to take a half step. And, in order to move that half step, we have to take half of that half step. And, in order to take half of a half step, we have to take half of a half of a half step..."
Well, you can see where this is going. If we have to take half of half a step all the time in order to move, then we actually never move.
Obviously, though, we do move. So, take the pottery class, and know that you are moving.
POP - I think therefore I do... hmm... wise words for some people I know who... don't!
O - Stretching is right! Growth can be painful!
J - I'd heard the same annalogy used to explain that in archery the arrow really never gets to the bullseye because of exactly what you've described. I always thought it was because I had no depth perception!
Personally speaking, the doing part is always harder when you have that "work" thing in the way. I think if it was removed my doing would become much more fun. Hmmmmm..... I hope that comes across properly.
Excellent, love it!
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