when you are with someone, give yourself to that person fully now how many of us can do that, people locked and scrambling about in the hustle bustle of life. i cant. but i never realised how important it really is.
"I believe in being fully present. That means you should be with the person you are with."
"So many people with far smaller problems are so self-absorbed, their eyes glaze over if you speak for more than thirty seconds. They already have something else in mind- a friend to call, a fax to send, a lover they're daydreaming about. They only snap back to full attention when you finish talking, at the which point they say 'Uh-huh' or 'Yeah, really' and fake their way back to the moment."
how very true this is. and yet i cant pull myself away from it. makes me feel so shallow. cant we show a little more concern for the people we love and the world around. afterall, we are one.
The story about a little wave, bobbing along in the ocean, having a grand old time. He's enjoying the wind and the fresh air-- until he notices the other wave in front of him, crashing against the shore. "My God, this is terrible," the wave says. "Look what's going to happen to me!" Then along comes another wave. It sees the first wave, looking grim, and it says to him, "Why do you look so sad?" The first wave says, "You don't understand! We're all going to crash! All of us waves are going to be nothing! Isn't it terrible?"
The second wave says, "No, you dont understand. You're not a wave, you're part of the ocean."
from years back and halfway across the world, its amazing how Morrie Schwartz can reach over to me transversing space, time and death. i am humbled, as i seek to understand.
and finally, "Love each other, or perish"
maybe this is why im feeling miserable of the late, due to school. how i long for those days at stnicks once more. my 2nd home for 10 sweet years. how i wish i could brush with death, so that i may learn to live, like i were dying.
"Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live"
