Maybe the problem is Western culture has become so self-centered that we believe everything is supposed to align for us. Mindfulness has become an excuse to be self-absorbed especially for those prone to be me-centric. Those stuck in this mentality don’t take the initiative to change their circumstances and instead broadcast their discontent.
When you surround yourself with creative people moving
in a direction, it’s difficult to resist that productive movement, and why would you? Movement is how you get somewhere. Movement is finding something worth working toward rather than complaining about.
Movement means ordering off the menu rather than just attempting to be filled with whatever comes before the main course.
I told the student that the great thing about life is if you order a steak, it comes with options for different steaks and you can take a few bites and go back to the menu or choose one of the new options. You country wise email marketing list don’t have to be stuck. You’re only stuck if you’re eating the chips and salsa and refuse to make a decision.
“I know…but as a side note, in real life, don’t expect a great steak from a place that serves chips and salsa as the appetizer.”
“I figured.”
• Jeff Lund is a freelance writer based in Ketchikan. His book, “A Miserable Paradise: Life in Southeast Alaska,” is available in local bookstores and at Amazon.com. “I Went to the Woods” appears twice per month in the Sports and Outdoors section of the Juneau Empire. Due to space limitations this column did not appear last week as scheduled. Next week’s column will appear as usual.
Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé senior Ida Meyer what you need to know won the first running event of the two-day Region V Track and Field Championships at Thunder Mountain Middle School, notching the top Division I time in Friday’s combined DI and DII combined 3,200 meters, and setting the stage for the Crimson Bears’ team title win fax database over Ketchikan.
Meyer won the DI girls race in 11:53.07, with Crimson
Bears’ senior Pacific Ricke and junior Lua Mangaccat second and third, respectively. Sitka senior Clare Mullin won the DII portion in a race-best time of 11:17.94.
“I think today I kind of disassociated myself a little bit,” Meyer said. “I was kind of just going lap by lap, just running and kind of just chilling by myself a little bit, and that was fun. I was just trying to go out with Clare and the others, and just stick with them. I kind of just fell into my own pace, which is kind of what I practice, kind of around a 1:30 lap.”
Meyer and her teammates hugged after.
“That has kind of been a tradition this season,” Meyer said. “The group hug at the end and at the beginning. We’re here for each other out on the track and there for each other when we are finished, just everywhere in life.”