RE: Pensiveness, musing and melancholy
I like being asked questions:)
Do you often get pensive?
Yes.
What do you make out of it?
Chew on my thoughts or get rid of them by doing physical stuff.
What puts you into that mood?
Other thinkers, mostly. Law of attraction:-D - or: conflicts with others I haven't quite solved or made sense of them. But the latter I am getting better at and decided on speak to people, spending time together instead of thinking about them. If they let me.
Are you bothered by it?
Not at all. I actually like it too much!
But: if it eats too much of my time, I get a feeling of missing something. Then I notice that I dwelled too long onto my thinking processes and get a guilty feeling. From which I know it's past indoctrination as to do something more useful instead being with my thoughts somewhere in the clouds. Other than the guilt the saying is true, though. It's about finding middle ground. Not to think too much but to think deep enough to get insights which I can use for my daily practice - so called life.
THANX for the video! It's to the point!
To me this border is really hard to grasp - how much time spent on thinking allows going "deep enough", but at the same time not to move into illusion (dreamland is always tempting :] ).
I'm always a fan of balancing things, but I'm not sure about "middle ground" - it suggest the center point as the right one, while it may not be so :D
I'm glad you liked it. Good old Monty =3
It is not possible to find a balance without a centre. I'll take a picture of a tightrope walker. If I swing too far to the left or right, I fall. Transferred to my life, that's my mid-point. When I leave it, I sleep too much, eat too little, ponder or exaggerate with egocentricity.
By the way, this lovely video made me looking up some facts and the question: Have you considered, for example, that you will never again be in the place where you were when you read the beginning of this sentence?
The gravitational force of the Shapley supercluster really gets you going. This is an accumulation of galaxies about 700 million light years away whose sheer size is beyond our imagination. Because of its size, it exerts an immense attraction on the Local Group, the clusters of galaxies to which the Milky Way and our planet also belong. In collaboration with the Sloan Great Wall, a cluster of other galaxies, the supercluster brings us to an incredible 630 kilometres per second. That's over 2 million kph.
What I'm saying is that the "center" is not necessary in the "middle" - for example you have "cultural center", not "cultural middle". The thing is, center is something that gives you reference, hence balance, while middle is just a point (you even said both of those, center=finding balance, mid-point).
Therefore you should be looking out for the center, not for the middle to find balance.
Although, center often happens to be somewhere around the middle, so I get the simplifications :)
Consider this: you not only can't be in a same place ever again, but also that place will change, since it will be changed by you "visiting" it. What's more you will never be able to repeat that as it happened - in a given time with the given past - no matter what you do that place, time and past will be affecting it. Even time travel can't do that (since you will know about the past, which will be still affecting you).
Infinite complexity of the world once again... :D
Just reading stuff about galaxies gives you this vibe of unreality. As I said, we talk about things like that and yet grass behind the window still looks the same :)
:) smarty pants, you. Of course you knew what I meant with middle ground. It's just a more lax expression. LOL!
yup. Grass and fence do not change in our eyes. Good that we cannot see the process, otherwise we would go insane.
Oh, I forgot to add something to your former answer. One can have a very deep insight within seconds. So, I would say that time is not so much relevant. Time consuming it gets when one is thinking "hard" instead of thinking "deep".
Now I got to go and make the dishes:)
It's always a pleasure talking to you!
Same here, I just finished my dinner :)
Keep warm Erika!
PS - Maybe tell your son to clean up :P