The shortest way home is the longest way around. C.S. Lewis
The short of it: You can’t just swing on the swings; you gotta be building your own playground while you’re doing life.
Taste it all. Then come full circle.
Ecclesiastes:
“Why do people toil so hard: Only to what their neighbours have. But this is like chasing the wind. It is better to have a little and much peace of mind than to be busy all the time trying to catch the wind.”
Remember this:
Need to taste it all. Set out on the seas like Sinbad the sailor. Visit the islands, sail the coasts, meet the locals of all foreign lands, see the sunsets from E → W lands, encounter Beauty wearing many faces. Meet Ugly in other faces.
Gotta b heartwrecked….
Know abundance and perspective.
Gotta overwork urself at work….
Know the value of ur time.
Go the long way around to get to the real wisdom.
Longest way round is often shortest way home.
*The first sip. The caramel crema that balances a dense-enough edge of the curled lip of earthy ceramic.
*Elegantly pincering the coffee/ cig duo among morning comrades.
*Brewing up a Bialetti percolator atop a fighting bunsen-burner flame on the dank forest floor.
The Coffee Question...
If you need something then you are dependent on it. Take away that habit for a day and you are toast. Dragging your feet so much u throw a wrench in every other health & success system u have in place.
You have an entire system that has become fragile.