If you haven’t done so, then please read part 1:
Perfection In Such An Average Day
Well, my average day actually stretched through the weekend and included these 5 simple highlights:
1- Attending a School Choir and Band Concert
2- Going For a Run after 10 days off with a cold
3- Enjoying a couple of Beers at home
4- Late night Reading
5- Listening to my daughter strum her guitar
Fairly straightforward pleasures, right?
What intrigues me is that each are comprised of many average moments, yet add up into something I enjoy and often want to repeat.
For example, take “going for a run”.
In successive moments I am:
- Choosing to run Sunday morning and skip breakfast (as the weather’s lovely at 9am but would be too hot a few hours later)
- Picking my running kit out.
- Doing the Yoga stretch routine I use as warm-up.
- Walking through the park to get to the part I can run on.
- Feeling the sun, the wind and the ground on my feet as I move from a shuffle to a jog to a wee bit faster running.
In fact, I could probably write out another 10 ‘moments of perfection’ that occurred to me over the time I spent “going for a run”.
And ditto for the other 4 highlights I noted above.
But I’ll spare you that – except to say “Get to work on finding your own perfection in an average day”.
Although such physical moments are temporary, there need be no shortage throughout life. ( Think of it as a “supply and demand” issue!)
- Mark McClure
PS: Many thanks to Prof Morrie “A Teacher to the Last” Schwartz and author Mitch Albom for their powerful and life affirming book,”Tuesdays With Morrie”. Highly recommended.
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