Imagining watching your life through a looking glass

Do you imagine watching your life go by through a looking glass?

I think it would be too painful or embarrassing

Oh hell no - no you didn't - am not watching this honeysuckle again - no way - painful enough the first time through - lol.

I'd keep shouting, "Get up! Get your honeysuckle together and get the hell out of there. Your life is ticking away. Stop wasting it!!!"

I don't really live my life. I mean, I do, but also kind of not.
My body and my mind are almost never in the same place at the same time.
I call it the curse of being a creative. lol.
I actually developed the slight ability to teach them to operate separately, because when you're a musician, or anything of the liberal arts really, freedom of mind is very important. And that's sort of how it started, was back when I used to play guitar.
Most of the time when I'm at work, I'm not really thinking about work. I mean I am, I kind of have to because I'm in operations and logistics management, but I'm also not. I built a lot of the kinesthetic stuff into my muscle memory, specifically so that I could be free of mind to think of keys and scales, measures and time signatures, rhythm and melody, and then gradually later as I got into more and more things creatively it became me thinking about X/Y/Zed things in history or science, or just whatever video game, movie or series I'm into at the time.

I do in fact think that there's something to the Buddhist principle that life is mostly suffering, I do find that to be true.
There's not much we can really do about the mundane to spice it up, even with the excess of materialism that we have.
I try not to think too much about my life in detail because it's mostly sad, and I make it a point to try to stay out of my feelings because they can be a very limiting perspective. So instead, like most creatives, I kind of physically live one life, and in my head live another life entirely.

Random adenium:
At some point, I'd actually like to get into the practice of pottery, and teach myself how to do things like cook better, have a vegetable and fruit garden, thinking about investing into a sewing machine, and so on and so forth. Just clever, simple money-saving tricks of better, healthier self-sufficient practices.

No need, I can watch it go by in my living room. Doesn't matter where I watch it it's always the same result: not much goin' on. lol.

sunflowergirl1306 said:

Do you imagine watching your life go by through a looking glass?

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Watching my own life would be ultra boring

I'd be like, "WTF are you doing now? That's not going to work and you're going to hurt yourself. Don't do it!" Bam! "Dumb ass! I knew that would happen. You are so **** predictable!"

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No, watching my life would be too sad.

Do you mean like "Danny in Wonderland?" ...Nope.

Just be myself & to hell with their opinions....it's my reality alone.

I spent most of my 20's watching my life through the bottom of a beer glass

randomguy said:

I spent most of my 20's watching my life through the bottom of a beer glass

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ditto

dan27 said:

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Great song

Yes SFG1306, I do imagine looking at my life going by as if through a looking glass. It's a compulsive habit for me, ruminating on the past as well as my recent experiences and considering what I'll do in my coming years.
I'd like to do a lot less dwelling on some of those past scenarios.
What about you?