After the sheer nuttiness of the past few years, I thought I'd keep the resolution simple this year: mindfullness. Spend enough time constantly stressed and it's easy to get out of the habit of focusing on the here and now and instead have a brain that's constantly scrambling off in 17 directions simultaneously.
In my brief quest for this mindfullness thing, I spend a lot of time thinking about it instead of what I'm doing (go ahead, giggle. I won't take it personally). Thinking about one thing at a time is an improvement for me, even if it means an idea remains theoretical for a little while before it's actually applied to life. So, tonight, I was busy contemplating mindfullness while cooking dinner and what it meant and maybe I should buy another book on it though I already have that one book and it's pretty good do I really need another and maybe this mindfullness thing'd be easier if I just laid off the caffeine my brain might slow down and I'm almost out of coffee so it wouldn't be that hard to quit and what's that awful smell?
Smell?
The smell brings us to tonight's lesson on mindfullness: if you fail to notice that the sweater you're wearing is on fire, you're not being mindful.
I know, newsflash, eh?
Another thing: if you're going spend your cooking time thinking about mindfullness instead of practicing it, wear wool. That way, when you finally gather the wits enough to yank your hand knitted irish wool sweater clad arm out of the burner, the fire will extinguish immediately. It's like magic.
Clearly wool was invented for absented minded fools.
Of course I'm fine, though the left arm's a bit hairless and the kids think I'm an idiot. I've sworn off thinking while cooking at least until I master multitasking.
Just swear off thinking entirely; life's quicker that way. Much less multi-tasking going on.
Posted by: Lynn | January 18, 2012 at 04:48 PM