Showing up in life...
This is from a friend's blog that I read frequently...
"Whenever I feel tired or intimidated at the thought of "feeding the blog," it's usually because I'm laboring under some unspoken, barely conscious expectation of what my entries "should" be. If I get rid of the "shoulds," though, blogging isn't a weighty chore; it's simply a matter of showing up."
I really like this idea as a way of being in the world -- whenever we try to organize our lives around our perceptions of others' expectations -- it will lead us to acting in some deeply artificial ways.
"Simply Showing Up" feels like a more genuine and good way to be. A dialectical tacking between authenticity/presence and improvisational/other-orientation. That's where I want to be...
"Whenever I feel tired or intimidated at the thought of "feeding the blog," it's usually because I'm laboring under some unspoken, barely conscious expectation of what my entries "should" be. If I get rid of the "shoulds," though, blogging isn't a weighty chore; it's simply a matter of showing up."
I really like this idea as a way of being in the world -- whenever we try to organize our lives around our perceptions of others' expectations -- it will lead us to acting in some deeply artificial ways.
"Simply Showing Up" feels like a more genuine and good way to be. A dialectical tacking between authenticity/presence and improvisational/other-orientation. That's where I want to be...
Comments