Medium says that I should tell you “about me,” but I’m in the middle of an existentialist thought… so I’ll get back to you on that.

Aug 11, 2016

On Mindfulness

Bordering on Beautiful. Day 12.

Today marks the beginning of my journey to Cape Town…. which means I’ll be sitting on a plane for twenty hours. It would be easy to disregard today as a “meh” day, a wasted day en route to a final destination. But that’s a dangerous way to look at it. If one day is a “meh” day, they all are. Life is a means of passage to a destination we can’t control. Choose whatever metaphor you’d like to for death: a ship bound for Neverland, a room of empty white space, or the train headed to the station where Harry Potter and Dumbledore meet in book 7. Life and death may be polar opposites, but living and dying sure aren’t. You’re living, you’re dying, so you might as well enjoy it. Revel in the sunset and sunrise on the ship bound for Neverland, look out the window of the train. Gretchen Rubin wrote The Happiness Project because she realized “the days are long but the years are short.” Snaps for Gretchen Rubin… Thank you for teaching me about mindfulness.

On that note, here are a series of sketches that relate to mindful living:

Living and dying are presented as antonyms. They’re not. If you’re living, you’re also dying.

I imagined the controller of time telling me: “you have time” but also telling me “I have my price.” Both are likely true. You have time, but everything has a cost. Opportunity cost is an omnipresent principle.

Welcome to a collection of the random lint that floats through my head. But seriously, what is it with philosophers and their pets?

Same sentiment as the earlier one… If you know your mind, it’s easier to be mindful.

Apparently the phrase “gloves, a hat, and a puffy jacket” was part of whatever conversation I was listening to. I’ll probably make other drawings like this on the plane today: #nofilter

Well, as they say in arabic: Yalla (let’s get going)! Cape Town, here I come :)