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In the moment

Joey Jones4 Comments

What activities do you lose yourself in?

WP you asking bloggers about which activities they lose themselves in. Mmm, now then, I wonder what one of them may be? 

Is being out in nature an activity per se? Walking is obvs, but I am talking about immersing myself in nature. Being mindful of every single moment, movement, sound. The smell of the woods, hearing the stream race along. The sun shining through the trees or rain  dropping from the sodden leaves. The crunch underfoot or the slosh of puddles of mud. The birds.

I’m wondering. Maybe I lose myself in everything I do now that I have the time and space to do so?

Messaging with friends, making coffee, listening to the radio, looking out of the window-watching the squirrels, reading the posts of my fellow/favourite bloggers, driving everything, and anything i can think of.  even chilling. Yep, they all have my undivided attention, thesdays.

Lost in thought…. edit

Joey Jones5 Comments

What activities do you lose yourself in?

Mmmm, not sure it’s a good idea to be lost in thought. Too many roads, windows and doors to open. Too many paths to go down.

Lost in nature, sounds good doesn’t it? But then thought comes into play. What’s wrong with thought I hear you think? Nothing, I reply, but is it a relaxing past time? Isn’t that what getting lost in something means, surely? Not to be thinking of anything else but what you are doing? There that’s put the idea of lost in thought to bed.

Lost in music? How about that? .Errr emotive? Too emotive?

Cooking? That depends how well you know your recipe. If you have to concentrate hard on what you’re doing that would pass the Lost-In Test.

Reading is another good Lost In…as long as what your reading doesn’t make you think of something else, and of you go, ‘ in thought’. I think that’s why I like Auto/biographies so much. They are just giving you the facts…well, as far as the writer sees it of course. I used to love non- fiction, but that opens the door to the imagination, doesn’t it?

I do get lost in reading how you guys answer the Daily Prompt, there’s that.

Getting lost in sport is a good way to go, I imagine. Exhausting, but you can’t become distracted, you’d need your mind on the job. Which goes for bomb disposal, I suppose. Fire fighters, paramedics, surgeons,nurses all the emergency services, for example should by definition get lost in their jobs. But where does that leave me? ‘m not into sport or any of those respected professions.

It’s clear I get lost in my imagination, that no doubt leads me astray…..I think the Buddhists have the key..Being lost in an empty mind.

Ok, so here’s the edit. I’ve just been  watching something on Netflix for the last 4 blissful hours.. and there are 3 more episodes and one more season of 10  episodes to go. Yep,  lost in it!!!