Serendipity

Impermanence is a constant.
“If there’s one thing you could teach your yoga students,” she asked us, “what are you most passionate about sharing?”Everyone else began writing fervently, paragraphs of inspiration emptied into the room for several minutes. I stabbed one line onto my paper:
“You have no idea what happens next.”An addendum to “being present,” the idea that everything can change in a hiccup is by turns exhilarating, and frightening as fuck. Again, when everything is dank with hopeless filth, a sweet text message or large bank deposit sweeps it clean by surprise.
And this is lovely.
But when things are zippered in to the stasis of routine, a slip, a trip of announcement, a sneeze of a change in schedule shakes the structure loose. And this is unsettling.
There’s this weird balance we have to strike then, between finding comfort in the solidity of routine, and embracing its entire dissolution at a moment’s notice. How do you enjoy something without either naively assuming it’ll last forever or not clinging to it, squeezing the life out of it, because you’re afraid it’s about to leave forever? When I manage this well on my own, I’ll let you know.
For now, the best I can do is to flip the script. If it can change in a bad way so quickly, it will do the reverse just as easily. The lovely part always comes back.
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Yes! I stumbled across this today and feel like this was, in a way, what I was seeking last night in my mad rambling. Flip the script. The lovely part always comes back. I like that. Accept that it is unsettling, and move along.

I played an absolutely terrible round of golf today, out of nowhere! I had been shooting lower and lower of late, and my handicap was dropping. Today? Freakshow! Maybe I just had to get it out of my system before my important match, the 4th of July tournament this Friday and the Member/Member in 2 weeks? Yeesh. Kids had an awesome meet, and I'm ready to teach 4 classes tomorrow. Nervous about this kids class! Wrote up a plan tonight and am going to go through it all in my head with a 6 am run tomorrow. Teach at 8:30, 9:30, 5 and 6:15…with a massage at 12:30.

Flip the script!

Namaste. May your every endeavor, even the ones outside your comfort zone, be successful.

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