I got freaked out and overwhelmed today.
To break that mode, I tried shouting and throwing things. (Yes, I am three.) It made things worse. I got more worked up.
So I started walking down residential streets enumerating aloud the things that I hate: getting parking tickets, bureacracy, cilantro, people who don't wait their turn at 4-way stops .... Never lingering just enumerating with each step.
After a while I ran out of personal hatreds and I started listing things that my friends hate. From there it went to things I have heard strangers say that they hate and things I could envision being hateful. I walked through hate, dislike, annoyance, irritation, distastefullness, arbitrary personal preferences and kept walking until I reached ridiculous. I started to laugh.
I'm sure it is healthier to meditate, but who can sit still for that long?
An idiosyncratic and non sequitorial examination of the contents of one head.
Monday, May 03, 2004
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