What is one to do,
to remember,
that there is nothing to do?
For it is easy to forget
that this moment is perfect,
and to strive for another
yet more perfect still.
Yet in striving for another,
one loses the unity of this,
and can never catch the other.
And so it goes, on and on,
in a never-ending circle
that sees one sitting
in a different chair,
in a different room,
at a different time of day,
a year after one had resolved
to change something.
Then another year goes by,
a decade more passes,
a century flies like the wind,
and again one is sitting there,
in another chair,
in another room,
at another time of day,
resolving to change something.
But, in fact, one is resolving
to do a contradiction,
for there is no one
to do anything,
and nothing
to be done,
but to let go,
and be taken by life.
Soulful Thoughts 
Beautifully articulated. Modern society dictates that “doing” and being “busy” are cool. When infact just Being is the real act of living.
I often wonder why we strive for more of everything, in the name of what?
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Thanks so much, and yes it’s a good observation, one that I imagine many people are grappling with in some way.
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Nicely expressed Jason. I’m enjoying your ruminations… infant this ‘doing’ business has been foremost in my recent considerings, as I’ve been contemplating retirement and fearful of who I’ll become when ME has nothing pressing to DO! It’s as if my only value and meaning is in what I do and have done. How will I answer the proverbial “what do you do?” Will it be enough to say I breath, I eat, I walk, I read, I listen? Right now, in the late afternoon, lying in my bed, considering this question and feeling warm and comfortable after an active and productive day, I feel ready to loosen the firm bindings of my career identity but how tempting it will be to DO something else, to rebadge my new identity – or at least wanting the credit for letting go and letting life take me where it will – or where I decide to let it! We’ll see how it goes, Allan
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Thanks for the feedback, Allan, and for sharing your own experience. I was very interested to read your reflections, and I imagine many other people would be able to relate to them too. All the best with your deliberations, Jason
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