On Time, Perception and Being Present
Two businessmen, each en route to important business meetings, have left their houses. Two business men walking down the sidewalk in early morning New York City. Each man wearing identical, brand new, Barney's suits, new leather shoes and a leather briefcase. Both men briskly walking to make it to their important business meetings as the sky opens up and begins to pour rain all over them.
In the rush to leave the house, neither man checked the weather nor took an umbrella with them. Now they are getting drenched, with 20 minutes to reach their appointments, no time to go back and change, and completely getting soaked in the middle of the sidewalk with no businesses or overhangs to gain cover. Barney's suits, leather shoes and leather briefcases getting ruined.
Eventually, one man's face turns bright red and is trying to hail any taxi going by or run into any business. He raises his fists to the heavens and begins to curse the rain, the clouds and God himself! He is furious and justly so. Perhaps more furious for not being prepared, although it may take a day to cool off and realize that.
The other man, also trying to hail a cab, looks up at the rain and smiles. He smiles, shakes his head, looks down at his watch and his clothes and thinks to himself, "well this is just swell." He begins to sing Singin' in the Rain to himself and jumps in a puddle.
Both men run into each other at the corner of the street, chasing the same taxi. They flag it down, nod in agreement to share and head off. To find they are going to the same place and in fact were meeting with each other.
Time, the suits, the taxicabs, the briefcases, the meeting place, the umbrella sitting next to their doors, and the rain itself - had no agenda to disrupt those particular businessmens' days. The rain did not choose who to fall on. Time did not choose to speed up or slow down for anyone. So what was the difference that lead one man to chuckle and sing and the other curse and fume?
Being present and perception.
As people we should take a moment daily, to step back and realize that we are only viewing the world through our own pair of eyes. We base our thoughts and feelings and reactions to a situation on our memories or our beliefs or predictions of the outcome. We rarely, as people, base our perception of a situation solely on what is exactly occurring as it occurs. Or being completely present and mindful.
Take moments to just smell the scents, touch the objects around you, realize their proximity to your body, listen to every sound around you, taste the food, inhale the air and look at the immediate surroundings in relation to your physical presence, right now.
Do not think about the time, what you must do tomorrow, what happened a week ago. Do not think about what you missed, or what you hope to accomplish. Do not focus on the demands upon you or wondering if you paid that bill. None of those things can be changed by your worry or thoughts or feelings alone.
Simply, take stock in the present and where you are and what you experience and what you see and what you can accomplish, right now. The issues you think about or worry about, will not leave if you stop concerning yourself with them.
The time you take to be present, will certainly assist you in being more mindful in accomplishing those tasks or correcting issues on your mind.
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