MissTick
Thingish Things

I am in peace this morning. Perhaps, I found mine while watching someone else working on his peace for the day. This morning in the car park I use for work there was a man doing Tai Chi right in the car park, between the rows of cars. It looked slightly out of place, very much surreal and totally awesome! Coincidentally I had soft music playing in my car and I just sat there for a little while watching this man performing his magic ritual. And just the watching brought me such a peace and made me feel relaxed, content and ready for my day. Great power of self-awareness!  I went out into town at lunch time. the weather here is outrageously warm for the Little Island. Hot even. Hords of tourists all around since it is a tourist season in UK. Generally not a pleasant outdoors as it might've been in different circumstances, somewhere far away from the city, by the nice quiet river, laying in a grass, recharging body's solar panels, watching puffs of clouds passing by in the striking blue skies...But not for me today. Today I had a purpose and I was persuing it. At my lunch time. Charging with the negative energy of the human mass I've been wading through. and then there was this guy. He was playing saxophone. Some very mellow, very matching the weather tunes. it was hot, he was featuring nothing but jeans and a nice sixpack too. And he played like a god! I stopped to listen for a while, forgetting of my purpose and of everything else going on around me. And my soul went swimming into the ocean of tranquility. That's another blessing of today. I am so lucky. This entry was dated almost 6 years ago, yet I have it in my bookmarks ever since. I Really Should Be Reading This Every Monday. And every Tuesday, every Wednesday and absolutely every Thursday as well! Needless to say that I didn’t always stick to my good intentions. So today I went back and read it again. Such a cute poem! Inspired by a recent conversation, I've been thinking how whatever you do, you have to love yourself doing it. Even if you do not enjoy the actual doing, at least find a reason to like yourself in the process. Take talking with another someone. Are you making a conversation to please the other or for you to feel good? I dare to say that most of the times when I enjoy the talk, the other party enjoys it too. Isn't it what a good conversation is about? Not just an exchange of information, but exchange of the happy vibes. So let's  go find those vibes and let's enjoy.