this week’s quote and a question
“We hurry though the so-called boring things in order to attend to that which we deem more important, interesting. Perhaps the final freedom will be a recognition that everything in every moment is ‘essential’ and that nothing at all is ‘important’.” Helen M. Luke
What would the next hour, the next day, be like if we saw no task as important but everything as essential?
Priorities hey? So what would looking at housework be like if I didn’t see it as something hateful that just has to be done and started looking at it some other way? What about all the other "chores" that "get in the way" of my fun? I suppose they would still be the same tasks, you can’t make them dissappear, but if I change how I look at them would I loathe them any less? Would I resent other people’s devil may care attitudes to my just mopped floor/just cleared space less if I didn’t regard it as such a martyr-creating task in the first place? Probably! But how to re-program me is another thing, isn’t it?
This year I’m aiming at more creativity in my life and my home. I’m looking at creating a more calm, less cluttered home as part of that creativity. Creating space. If that’s not going to turn into something that creates resentment and anger then I need to get a grip on this whole attitude to housework etc. If nothing is more or less essential than any other task then I need to concentrate equally on every task, not just doing enough to get by whilst my mind is on something else.
This is even more random than my usual ponderings isn’t it!
random it may be, but I can SOOOOO relate to that attitude about housework - in my house it feels like the ultimate waste of time!!
Comment by Caroline — January 14, 2009 @ 10:58 pm