I am a fan of the moments of enjoyment. I always seek for time periods and proper places to be alone. This spared time means to me reading, thinking, hobby work or even staring to the yard ahead absent minded. Lately, I started to think that this behavior can be on the edge of laziness. The more I sit around the more I become ineffective earning my life out there.
Reading self improvement books or listening podcasts related to, is one of the favorite book category of mine. The other day, in one of those spare times, I came across a topic about values in life. How I should be aware of, focus on and may be rank my values. And also how I should try to build rules to protect them. The topic follows as some people have negative perception about rules, being restrictive. But actually the rules can be beneficial, if they are flexible enough at the same time.
Time is a value to me. Yes definitely sparing time for myself is of great importance to me. And some of the rules I was employing to protect was as follows:
- Swift handling my responsibilities,
- Prioritizing my daily tasks,
- Staying away from ineffective social encounters.
Looks like I was actively making effort to clean my day ahead. Then enjoyment comes after the effort, building my day and taking responsibility for it. Responsibility and effort are the keywords.
That could be it, I may not be so lazy after all :)
While talking about the act of effort, let me share with you a saddening experience I had the other day. There was a little sparrow jumping next to a wall. Being that tiny, this baby bird was trying to climb over the wall, first I thought. It succeeded couple of times but unfortunately fell down again to the ground. It was wet where the bird fell. I felt pity staring to it. The sparrow's tail and wings got soaked. I wondered if it feels any cold? How good the feathers were protecting the bird?
This little friend started to come towards me. You know how they move forward, advancing with little jumps, fast but timid. Assuming it will frighten the bird, I extended my arm and offered the warmth of my palm anyway. I thought the sparrow will flee away, but didnt. Surprisingly it jumped on to my palm. I decided to keep the bird warm with the heat of my palm. For maybe five minutes we had a chat and then the little guy fell asleep. I gently put it on top of the wall and carried on with my task at hand.
Being full of philanthropical feelings, I came back to where I left the tiny bird sleeping. At first the scene looked peaceful. What shocked me, happened in may be 1 minute later. This little sparrow started to tremble and shake. The bird was stretching all the body like it was in great pain. The fluttering went for seconds. But after all trials, the bird failed to get on to the feet. I felt helpless and hopeless. I can not imagine how that bird felt like. My short lived friend was dying. This tiny body was fighting to hold on to the soul with all kinds of efforts. At the end, sorry to say, the little bird gave the last breath in front of my eyes.
Above experience grasped me deep. After all, the most important effort we make everyday, is breathing. The surprising fact is that we do it unaware almost every time. And the final thoughts I ended up with is that being able to breathe, first is the greatest enjoyment we can have, and second it is the base for all the other enjoyments.
I believe, the recent war, the one before, and the pandemic, and all the other previous life costing events prove this.
All the best...
PS: The image above is created by using Alien Art Hive's "arty-ai-art" channel on discord, by using the following prompt:
"very small very ill sparrow standing on wet metal surface dying city lights at the back a hand is reaching to the bird"
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