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Today's
Meditation:
I
have fun with nonsense. I find that when I look at
things from a ridiculous perspective, my eyes are opened to
an entirely new way of seeing things. The
Wright brothers probably told people that they thought it
was possible to build a machine that would fly. How
many people do you think thought the idea was
nonsense? A group of young people once thought that
personal computers would be as common as television
sets. Nonsense, people would say--computers are for
scientists and mathematicians. Why would the average
everyday person want a computer? Look
around. How many of the things that you see today used
to be thought of as impossible? How many people used
to think that considering making these things indicated a
complete lack of sense (non + sense)? But they're all
here. Cell phones that work the world over by
utilizing satellites that are orbiting our planet.
Digital cameras and photo printers that produce
higher-quality photos than I ever got from any store.
Entire movies on small discs, 200 songs in MP3 format on the
same-sized disc. We've landed on the moon and we've
sent robots to Mars. The light bulb, something that we
all take for granted, is a remarkable invention that used to
be considered impossible. Whenever
I hear a statement that seems to be complete nonsense, I try
to pay closer attention to the meaning behind that
statement, for I know that somewhere in there is a grain of
truth that may fly in the face of what we "know"
to be right and true, but that can provide me with a truly
new and unique way of seeing things. And it's the new
that keeps my life vital and dynamic, not the old,
"sensible" way of looking at the world.
Besides, most of the "sensible" beliefs about life
and living are disproved, leaving us to wonder why we
believed in them anyway. |
