Heroes Not Zombies

It’s too easy to let life be so busy that it flies past, mostly unnoticed, from one day to the next.

I often remember the line from the Simpsons where Bart says “I’m a human being, not a human doing”!

On the other hand I’ve read biologists say that all of life is movement – no movement, no life.

I guess we’re back to “and not or”. It’s true that the living body is constantly moving, adapting, growing, respiring and metabolising, but it’s also true that we have to rest, take a break.

It’s in the moments where we don’t fill the minutes with busyness and tasks that we give ourselves the chance to be more aware and to reflect.

Conscious beings need to devote some time to allow awareness to rise to the surface. Time to just be. Time to relish our existence.