I am reading Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie, enjoying the dying professor’s insight and wit and the author’s simple and compelling delivery. I read a few pages each day, savoring their lessons and charm. Today’s excerpt holds a lesson for me and perhaps you as well. In this passage sportswriter Albom recounts an experience while covering Wimbledon.
“On one particularly crazy day, a crush of reporters had tried to chase down Andre Agassi and his famous girlfriend, Brooke Shields, and I had gotten knocked over by a British photographer who barely muttered “Sorry” before sweeping past, his huge metal lenses strapped around his neck. I thought of something else Morrie had told me:
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. I knew he was right.”
My task today and everyday is to wake up and make sure I’m chasing the right things.
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What a gift you’ve given to me to start today. Thanks
We are gifts to each other. Make it a great day.
Bob, I echo Ashara’s comment – your timing is nearly always spot on with a message that speaks to me. Thanks for sharing your shining light.
So good to hear from you Kim. Glad the message connected. Sending energy your way.
I have newly returned from South Africa and still in the maelstrom of thoughts, sights, people, smells and revelations from the wonderful journey. One of the many topics that I am still unraveling is the multiple discussions with our guide in the Sabi Sands area near Kruger National Park in North East S A. There are many ways of seeing. In one mode, if you are intent on finding one specific, you miss other things which are magic because your focus is too narrow. At other times, you don’t reach a goal of finding specific thing, because your gaze is too wide and distractions lessen your ability focus. In a way it is like the ” depth of field” in photography. Want to find an ant on a peony bud? Find a peony bud and narrow the focus to isolate the ant and the bud. Want to capture the majesty of Cape Town? Widen the focus to include the vaste assure Atlantic Ocean with Robben Island floating alone and some distance from the sprawling city with Table Mountain towering above with some clouds rolling down. All set in a background of astonishing sky blue. In seeing different ways can open new vistas. I am not the same person that left my door step some two plus weeks ago, and yet I am very much the same person with an ability to vary by depth of field. Thank you, Dolson and Africa, for teaching much about seeing and so much more.
Welcome back. Must have been a powerful trip. I appreciate your fresh and open approach to experience and your ongoing quests for truth and right action.
Virtually every time you post one of your little nuggest of insight, it is exactly what I need at exactly the right moment. What a glorious universal connection.
Thanks for your support and encouragement. The universe must be speaking through us. All the best.