when the bell rings
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When the bell rings form an orderly queue.
When the bell rings line up for your dinner.
When the bell rings.... hold on, the bell is ringing and nothing is happening?
embracing the journey
It is completely reasonable to set ambitious, even seemingly unattainable goals in life. What appears to be less reasonable is expecting life to turn out exactly as we imagined.
This is not uncommon. We are, after all, prediction making beings. It is in our nature to attempt to imagine outcomes and the consequences of cause and effect actions. Of course in some areas of life we are better at this than others. There are plenty of people that manage to live very predictable lives. Right up until close to the end of them.
This is a reasonable choice after all. Living to an old age in relative peace and harmony with your neighbours is no small accomplishment. But it has been noted amongst some of the people who have realised this that it is not uncommon to hear the phrase, "What was it all about?" - 'It' being life.
balancing expectations
It's not that the pursuit of peace and harmony and security is wrong in themselves, it is perhaps more the point that, many of the people who settle into this way of living are not wholly responsible for creating it, but rather, just bought into a system that was already there.
Along with the peace and harmony they accepted the fact that they would trade a significant portion of each day and service to it, never really questioning if they could achieve it for themselves with less effort.
To be fair we are all born into a system that was already there. My point is more a question of engagment. To what degree do we have an input in creating the communities in which we live - and to what degree do we just slot ourselves into a pre-existing function - some of which seemed to serve no real purpose at all?
