Much has been going on lately. In so many ways life has been changing for me. Not in a good or bad way but in an is what it is way. I actually enjoy the change in routine lately but that being said I have been slacking on this blog. As a quick recap the past four weeks challenges were:
-Week 39: Straighten Up/Improve Posture
-Week 40: The Facebook Experiment
-Week 41: Finding Spirituality
-Week 42: Living on the Fringe
Anyhow, before going into those weeks details, life as of late.
Like I said, much has been going on. Changes on the job, meeting new people. I am actually back into BJJ full force. I am also playing with my old band again, kinda weird actually. To tell you the truth, I haven't been able to digest a lot of the changes going on. It's more of a go with the flow, day by day type of thing. Some of the changes are well known:
Thanks Steve. RIP
I just heard that one of my friends father had a heart attack. My own dad is going in for a procedure on his heart. I guess if I had time to dwell on it, then it could possible affect me more, but for now, I have to move on and decide what is best to do in the moment and hope for the best. I guess in embracing some of the challenges of the past week, throw in a dash of previous challenges and I am seeing things in a new light.
Now Week 39 was about improving posture. I guess it was more of a pet peeve of mine and also didn't require much in the way of effort (well it did require a lot of awareness). The main amount of effort came in the form of standing straight against the wall for a minute before leaving my house. Week 40 was about how Facebook friends are made and influenced. I spent some time working on things like writing on peoples pages and choosing carefully worded status updates. But it started to have larger ramifications when I started thinking about how my own attitude determined a lot of how people react to me.
Weeks 40 and 41 were a throwback to finding some kind of spirituality in my life. I started embracing the take action ethos and jump first ask questions later type of thing, but then I started just to ask questions. Week 40 was embracing what I had known in term of Law Of Attraction to present moment awareness type of stuff, whereas week 41 was looking into the more mystical and really woo woo type of stuff. Things like horoscopes and more arcane forms of knowledge.
Without going into too much detail, the weird "cocktail" of the past few weeks led to some new perspectives for me. I won't say that I have everything figured out, but my own perspective of life has changed ever so slightly. For now, I found this cool speech by Arnold:
