Isn’t this over yet? I really don’t feel like writing, but here I am. I’d rather be reading and chilling. Not productive, but it’s true. I like to read a good book and do nothing, it’s refreshing to me. Hmmm…
I started to log my food intake today. That something I haven’t done in a long time. In a way I thought I was past that, but I guess not. I also started working out again today. I’m mean, I do a fair amount of acro yoga, which is awesome, but it’s not the same. And it doesn’t feel like it’s an all around workout and that’s something that I want to do. I’ve been missing that. Sooo, I went to a place called Brooklyn Boulders today. It’s a climbing gym. Honestly, when I go I mostly do acro, but they have some decent workout/lifting stuff there, too.
Skipping right along, an ironic thing happened to me today. This morning I was listening to a podcast and they talked about acceptance. But not a kind of acceptance I’ve ever really heard about before. It’s pretty radical, to me at least. They quoted Nietzsche and told a story about Thomas Edison, but the moral to the story was acceptance. It’s not to simply accept things that happen, but to truly embrace them, to actually love everything that happens to you. That’s hard to fathom for me. I’ve gotten past the idea raging against what happens in life, for it can be pretty random, not all of it is “good” and I only feel worse after when I rage about something I can’t really change anyways
So I feel pretty good about accepting things. I do know it can be said, “Why would you simply accept things? Why wouldn’t you go out and change them?” I had a snotty voice in my head as I wrote that, feel free to use one, too. My answer to those questions is it’s not about that. It’s about accepting the things you can’t change. But that’s another story.
Here was my life lesson today. Last week I got an email from Brooklyn Boulders. I had filled out a survey a month or two ago and as a result won a month long free membership. Right now free is good for my pocketbook. Do they even have those anymore? Meh, off topic… Anyways, since I had this shiny new free membership, and I’ve been wanting to work out more, I went there today after work. I’ve never been there during the day, and while there is plenty of free parking in the area at night, with the business around, it was all used up during the day. So I paid to park. Screw it. It was only a three bucks and the membership was free, right?
I get done with my work out and head out to my car. I’m about to start the engine and I look at the windshield and see a ticket. What the actual fuck? I had paid for parking! I was pissed because there must have been a mistake. I was there for an hour and paid for an hour and a half and get a ticket? Nuh-uh. I look at the ticket. I look at my parking slip. Sure enough. I only paid for an hour. Since I was on the phone when I was paying for the parking I screwed up. So much for being mindful. But wait, I was only there for an hour, right? And I paid for an hour. Oh wait. My parking expired at 2:48 pm. What did the ticket read? 2:50 pm. What time was it now? 2:52 pm.
I can see being happy about winning the month long membership. But being happy for having gotten a $60 parking ticket? That’s a harder thing to try and be happy about. I had really liked what that podcast talked about this morning, but I really didn’t want to have to try and put it into practice so soon. Ugh!
Well, my free membership has now cost me $60. Oh well. I guess I get to write about it. Another interesting thought is that I recently read about an experiment which showed that the future can effect the past. Think about that one for a minute.
