The organs inside the human body sit next to one another, but they do not touch one another. They sit within body cavities but they do not touch the cavity.
Rather, they are separated from their surroundings by a membrane of space.
Perhaps we can apply this ingenuity to the way in which we live our lives.
As we experience the various emotions and events that we encounter in a given day, we feel jolts and grates and frictional rubs. We are affected by each one.
Why?
Because unlike the organs in our body, we live directly apposed to the events of our lives. As such, the slightest shudder feels like an earthquake. Every scratch feels like a flesh wound.
What if we could learn to live our lives with a thin layer of space between us and the events that we experience?
With this thin layer of space, we can perhaps keep the tempest that surrounds us in perspective. And at arm’s length.
Perhaps it is a thin layer of space between us and our lives that makes living possible.
Rather, they are separated from their surroundings by a membrane of space.
Perhaps we can apply this ingenuity to the way in which we live our lives.
As we experience the various emotions and events that we encounter in a given day, we feel jolts and grates and frictional rubs. We are affected by each one.
Why?
Because unlike the organs in our body, we live directly apposed to the events of our lives. As such, the slightest shudder feels like an earthquake. Every scratch feels like a flesh wound.
What if we could learn to live our lives with a thin layer of space between us and the events that we experience?
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