I
am lucky to have some very insightful friends who occasionally shower me with
their wisdom. On Wednesday over a cup of
coffee I told Carl of my recent progress with singing, that I had now
moved on to a simple state of joy and was really enjoying practice again. We talked about this issue of being impatient
with life and wanting to get to the goal rather than settling in to embrace the
journey, and he pointed out that in fact 99% of any endeavor – in his
case it is finishing a book he’s been working on – is in the doing itself, not
the actual ending. “This is how we actually
live our life,” he said. Fortunately, I
am a big fan of the journey, more and more so the older I get, but it is nice
to be reminded and to be more conscious of this point every day.
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