It felt good writing my blog last week. I had been saddened to think that I hadn't written a blog in the entirety of this year, and was satisfied to accomplish the one. Now, I sit here and look in my blog directory for 2017, stare at the number "1", and think, wow, that's still pretty sad. I've only done one blog this whole year. So without inspiration or direction, I start to type.
Yeah, it just happened. Just now. Did you feel it? Wow. I sure felt it. That line I just typed spoke to me: "...without inspiration or direction, I start..." gave me inspiration and direction. That actually happens frequently when I type. Things just sort of come out. So today's blog is going to be about moving forward, frequently without inspiration or direction, because sedentaryism (not a real word, but you know what I mean) can be one of the worst choices you can make.
Sometimes we have to make the choice to move. Just move. We never possess knowledge of the future. We can guess. We can educate ourselves about potential outcomes, some more sure than others, yet the future is a mist. You have heard of the Law of Unintended Consequences?
Please don't confuse sedentaryism with patience. Patience invokes wisdom and emotional discipline. Its an informed and controlled choice to wait. Sedentaryism is an unconscious choice to not choose. Its a lack of wisdom. A fear of decisions. A fear of consequence. A fear of the future.
Is sedentaryism the same as lazy? I think it can be, and since its my blog, that makes me right. What is lazy? www.dictionary.com defines lazy as "averse or disinclined to work, activity, or exertion; indolent." Ok, gotta look up "indolent": "having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion: slothful". The pathology of indolent reads "causing little or no pain; inactive or relatively benign." NOW we're getting somewhere! Let's look at the Latin derivative of indolent: "dolere", to be painful. Add the prefix "in" to create an oppositional state, and voila, we have "without pain". Indolence means without pain. Lazy, then, means to disassociate from a world where we would either cause pain, or feel pain. To sit, sedentary, and live a passive life because we want to spare ourselves from pain.
And that is how we become a "1". That is how we live our lonely lives. We cause pain. We feel pain. So we set ourselves apart from the pain. We make ourselves alone. Passive. Let the world go on without us. At least we don't feel the pain.
Oh, but we do. We can't avoid the pain. Laziness builds its own constructs of pain. The emotional depression, the mental sluggishness, the physical inactivity. Pain comes in many forms. Remember, we can't see the future. It is a mist. There is pain in the mist, I don't care which road you walk.
Is there another choice? Yeah. Experience the pain. Feel the unpleasantness. Mourn the losses. Watch the scars develop. Understand the process, and grow strong from the pain. Why? Because you're out there. You're a part of the world. You're causing pain and feeling pain, but you're also engaging! You're making choices and learning from them. Developing strength. Wisdom. Learning to accept a hand. Giving a hand when someone else is in pain, and needs your learned and developed strength to help them. Growing. Living. Community.
Don't be the loneliest 1. Start moving, like this blog, maybe without inspiration and direction, and sometimes just moving brings inspiration and direction. We were born to move. We are meant to move. This world needs you to move. NEEDS. You. To Move. Believe it.
Well, that was a blast! I'm certain my brain is sweating after that workout. Thanks for "just moving" with me.
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