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Perfection Part 2

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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