It also okay to chill out now and then.

As often as possible try to remember who you once were at any given time in your past, it helps me doing this in a way that it makes any heavy mind boggling, thought provoking present that i am indulging in as far as my 'soul searching' goes more realistic and somewhat safe. The temporary tattoo post yesterday is one of those moments in my past that i almost forgot until it was triggered by Karim, my son's insisting that i listened to Red Hot Chili Peppers than to Hans Zimmer, like my choice of music. Most of us realize how we can easily get sucked into too much too heavy discussions about anything and it is good practice to just skip out of the mould and chill every now and then to remind oneself that life is about being light and easy.

This retracing of one's past experiences is also a means of reminding one's self that there were times when you were able to kick off your shoes and do the unexpected, create a stir or cause a commotion, jump out of the box or break away from the norm; these were moments that were acted out in spontaneity with no intentions nor expectations in mind. If you smoke pot and someone is telling you it is bad for you, you smoke it anyway simply because it is said to be bad for you; you refuse to accept an opinion without discovering what's bad or not for you. This is in essence what delf discovery is, it is the refusal to take someone else's word for something you need to do or not. However, being a practitioner on the road to find out, you are equipped with a sense of feeling that, an awareness that some things are good while others are not so for your own personal well being. You are an observer, a witness, an experimenter of life; you refuse being sucked into life's roadside attractions, the dramas, the prejudices and the hopes and aspirations to constantly aim at becoming something else other than who you truly are. Yes, it sounds like I am nagging to myself over things that are what considered to be the norm in this life.

This is the outcome of being in constant reflection of your mental formations, the activities of the mind from moment to moment, episode to episode as one make a move from where one is to the next event like from sitting here to going to pick up your son from his work place or going to find something to eat as you are hungry or hanging out your clothes to dry and so forth. Every single action you make each individual you meet or interact with, warrants a series of thoughts related to the event and not to mention the things, the stuff that the mind pick up along the way to getting there. But, if you are like everyone else who don't give two hoot about self discovery and looking for the truth and so forth, then you have no problem. For you things are as they should be, no need to keep an account of what is or what is not, what should or what should not for you. ignorance is indeed bliss.