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Unexpected destinations

Posted on by philipdodson

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Sure it is good to have a plan, say from A to B. But beware the peddlers of certainty, life happens at the edge of the circle where risk and uncertainty are.

The best things in life can not be found on a pre-planned straight line from one point to another.

Yes, we need to have a vision of where we want to go. Too rigid a plan can stifle the real magic of life.

What we need is something to act as the catalyst to start

Then the riskier, more exciting route, is to just let things unfold and to go with it. If you go the wrong way, you can always take another route.

Just keep creating, trying, testing, exploring, being curious and going down the unknown paths.

Go wandering and let the magic unfold, discover life’s wonderful and unexpected destinations.

We can stop time

Posted on by philipdodson

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Time will pass, every second, every minute, every hour, every day, month, year, lifetime.

We have no way of physically stopping that passing of time. Except how we chose to use that time and then we can make it feel that we have stopped time.

The more you do, that does not mean being a busy for the sake of it, I mean activity wise, I mean spending time on what matters. So if we live our lives, if we read, walk, run, spend time with people, create our best ‘art’, sing, dance, paint, write or whatever it is that we love doing.

If we stop, pause, hesitate, and get trapped in the cycle of fear and end up not doing, then time and life passes quickly, as we are more aware of time. We also feel the regret of wasting time.

We can make time feel like it has stopped by doing what we love, by spending time with people who matter and by not being conscious of time passing. We are so happy in what we are doing that time does not matter anymore.

The more we are in the flow of what we are doing, when we are so engrossed in things, time seems to stop.

If you want to stop being a slave to time, stop regretting wasting it, then be busy with life, with what you love and with the people you love.

After all, it is not the amount of time that matters, it is how quickly it passes and what you do with whatever time you have.