A problem I run into most every single day is what exactly to do when my list is over and complete? I live off lists - most of them stuck in my head. I'm so used to list making, my natural state thrives on the orderly completion of tasks one at a time. But this wreaks havoc on my stated goal: anything, at anytime, under any circumstance. And it does this in two ways.
First, what do I do when something out of the blue interrupts my list?
Second, what do I do when I'm done with the list?
I've been making my way through the first aspect of this issue: interruptions. Lately I've been trying to see existence as a sequence of moments that don't last very long at all (two minutes at the most). Any moment may be entirely different from the next, so if I write two sentences in that book I've been wanting to write, then I write two sentences before some other responsibility takes me away. Therefore, Life or experience is made up of moments pieced together to form a coherent whole over time.
But what to do when I've run out of things to do? Existence (I think, anyway) was meant to be experienced. When we were kids, we didn't have a problem with any of this. Experience was lurking around every corner. But when we grow up, things start to organize themselves and we lose that ability to just get involved in something for the sake of getting involved.
Plus it helps if you can jump start your interest level spontaneously. Questions? Comments? Concerns?
