I just had moment and it's gone, I think I missed it.

We stumble through our day to day lives with this belief that we have something more important to do. When you wake up you have to go to work, when you get to work you have projects, then you have lunch, soon you're anxious to leave, only to go home and rush through the errands you've been putting off all week. Finally your done, but you must rush through dinner, jump in the shower, then off to bed, because you have to get up tomorrow. We all do it, we simply let our lives tick by like a metronome, winding down.

Through out each of these days we are given a moment or two in which we can just slow down (or even stop, perish the thought.) these moments are with out a doubt fleeting, it's as simple as walking out side to drop off the mail, or just breathing in the non air-conditioned air. We treat our lives like a tear off desk calendar, as soon as we pull off yesterday's date we lift up today's date to see what tomorrow will be.

For many of us the routine is so complex and consuming that you don't ever really think about the fact that you're a part of it. It's not until you look back at the same time last week that you can see it. "what was I doing last Monday at 1:45pm, and will next Monday be the same?"

I'm not saying that automation and assembly line work ethics are negative, but I can say, with confidence, that becoming a cog in the machine is very negative.

Take your lunch an hour earlier or later, sit on a bench in the sunlight and eat your sandwich. Do something to break free from your rut, before you become the rut.

Retain the humanity you have left, and if at all possible, reclaim what you've lost.



Exile

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