At times, it so happens that you read something and it happens to articulate exactly what's playing on your mind. Yesterday, I read this passage from what is turning out to be an 'experience to cherish' kind of a book - 'Notes To Self' by Hugh Prather. It's one of those books your friends always told you about, but you resisted reading it, thinking "It's just not my type." This book reinstates my belief that literature (Fiction / Non-Fiction) which enables us to reconnect with ourselves is the most enduring in nature!
Amidst this festive season of reflection and renewal, I was thinking what my approach in this coming year should be since I cannot be a follower of rigidity of thought and confinement of my spirit in close ended targets set for myself called "Resolutions." This passage, beautifully describes what I want to do, rather how I want to do it....Here it goes...Prather says....
"Today, I want to do things, to be doing them, not to be doing something else. I don't want to drive to get there, make love to have climaxes, or study to 'keep abreast.'
I do not want to do things to sell myself on myself. I don't want to do nice things for people so that I will be 'nice.' I don't want to make money, I want to work to work.
Today, I don't want to live for, I want to live!!" :-)
