The Buried Life Revisited

My friend mentioned The Buried Life recently on Facebook. Apparently, she had gone to an event and heard them live! Lucky duck! Well, I checked out their Facebook, their official site, and their Pinterest and here are some inspirational pictures from the wonderful team! :-)

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And here are some more!

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In case you're wondering, this is what they look like...

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This is what their original list of 100 looks like!

Happy Daily Living to You!

Namaste,

J. Ahn

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The Art of Living Every Minute of Your Life by Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen

I just came across a great video on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1xBjIHEhtg

I like her suggestions for journaling.
She recommends that you write the events of your day backwards to the moment you awoke. And then you ask yourself three questions.

1. What surprised me today?
2. What touched my heart today?
3. What inspired me today?

I've found that of all the diaries I kept in the past, there were so many of the entries that didn't really seem to matter much after the years had turned to dust.

I wish I could keep a journal that does more than just that!
I am still looking for the right 'frame of mind' or the right 'thread' that pieces my life that'd hold well, when I look back on it.

Book Review: 20,000 Days and Counting by Robert D. Smith

http://www.amazon.com/20-000-Days-Counting-Mastering/dp/0849948541/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1361457338&sr=8-3

I found this on Kindle the other night. Ever since my best friend from highschool years passed a way last Winter, I've had this feeling of something 'hanging over me' and I just couldn't quite put a finger on how to deal with it.

This book was a helpful read. It DID get me more into the frame of mind I wanted about Death.

The question here posed, 'What if today were your LAST...?' got me to think also about, 'What if there were NO tomorrow...?' and although they have overlaps I feel that ultimately, they drive different points.

The hardest part though is the other aspect of 'framing' this concept around death, if your mindset REALLY got itself wrapped around the notion of ABSOLUTELY NO TOMORROWS, then each day of your life WILL be focusing on using up or enjoying exactly what is in front of you. BUT if you knew you had 20 days left to live, 12 days, or even 3 days left to live, your 'strategy' and what you choose to go for could be entirely different! For me, at least, this is what is driving me crazy and 'stuck.'

I'll have to experiment I guess. For some, they'd be content focusing on really 1 day at a time. For others, a list like Goddard's might do the trick.

Last night, as I pondered over this, my initial thoughts were to go and buy myself a sewing machine. I thought that my biggest regret would be to not have that experience of a buzzing busy sewing machine.

Now that I am semi-awake now, my mind is perplexed at not knowing how to resolve the 'Accomplishment Issue' and how long it takes to complete things.

OK. Well. Today is Day 12,776 for me.
Anything more than 600 feels like quite a lot to me.
But when I think of sequences, anything more than 9 or 12 is quite a bit of length.
Or if you compared 1 day against 2 days, even that is a huge deal!

Argh!!
OK. More to come soon.

Too hungry to think well!