Folded Paper Life
Recently, I came across the blog of an old acquaintance, this annoying guy I knew since the fifth grade. Out of sheer curiousity, I decided to read what this dork had to say - and I was shocked to see some of the same emotional undertones in his blog, that were also in mine. Oh, boy, slam the brakes! When you start sounding like someone who you can barely stand to share the same planet with, it's time to take a good, long look at yourself, am I right? So, unless it's a major crisis, I've decided the griping is best shelved for the moment. Instead, I've decided to just write whatever comes to mind - of the positive nature, that is (more or less). The major goal of my life now is to to strive for contentness. With this in mind, I've taken up a new hobby. Origami. That's right - the art of paperfolding. It's very relaxing really (well, except maybe when I'm struggling with a sink fold). I can now fold a decent flower box and an almost pretty lily. This is yet another time in my life that I wish I was better at math. Apparently, being good at math helps with origami, something about the way the mind works. Sometimes I think the best solution to all the quandries in my life is to just step back and look at them objectively, without emotion. In that way, I think origami is a sort of metaphor for life. If you go into folding something with emotion, with anger or pride or whatever, you're screwed. It takes patience, calm, a level head. Sometimes, you have to stop and walk away. You have to look at the paper from a different angle. Then - boom! Oh, it's like that, that's how that fold is executed. Once you're done, you wonder how you could ever have been so foolish. I've been thinking that lately; I also have the sneaking suspicion that I will have these same thoughts in the next five years, the next ten years, the next twenty...you get the picture. Priorities change. I've just realized I ought to change with them.
Final thought: Hindsight is 20/20. :idea: