The Moment we wake up, it begins.
The rush through life.
We meet the modern world's momentum with every tick of the clock into the shower, on the highway, off to work. Images and sound bites bombard us. Billboards, television, newspapers seed doubts and worry. War abroad, local violence, familial discord, problems in the office, a friend suffering from depression. Our minds are either five steps ahead, imagining what we will do and say, planning for the next hour, for tomorrow or going over yesterday consumed by memories and regrets. And at the end of the busy day, before the routine begins anew, there is a slight sense of never having been.
The questions come:
What do I do all this for?
What is this strange sense I have, the sense that I do not truly inhabit my life?
What would it mean to not always be focused on the future, or on the past? Is there a key to understanding the discord in my life?
The discord all around me?
Copyright ŠThe Gurdjieff Foundation of Alabama
