Meeting the day without expectations, agendas, opinions, intentions, demands, attitudes, judgments, plans, designs, programs, and ideas for the way things should be, is to be ready for anything, except, perhaps, a test on any of the above. To walk unprepared into the day, just as we are, as ones thus come, waiting to see what the day asks of us and how we respond, is to drop like Jesus or the Buddha, or Lao Tzu into the day. And the day will not know what to do with us. It will likely look at us with side eyes, walk around us, suspicious of our intent, of which we have none, and sit down, waiting to see what we do. I suggest that we sit down as well, and wait to see what the day does. We could practice our breathing: Inhale for a count of five, remember. Exhale for a count of five, pause for a count of five between breaths, repeat for as many rounds as it takes for the day to get bored and start pestering us just to see if we are alive. And we can swing into action, watching what is happening, looking for what needs to be done in response, and we are off! "The game is afoot!" Matching wits with the day is the greatest sport there is-- and the best thing about it is no keeping score! Just doing what is called for in each situation as it arises, through lunchtime, dinner, shower and bed, dreaming of what tomorrow might hold. What a life that would be, eh, Gibbs? And quite the life for me!
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