Learning how to be still, to be really still and let life happen...
Morgan Freeman, an iconic actor said that stillness can become a radiance. Something he learnt from some of the great actors he worked with.
My knowledge of this quote emerged thanks to a Google notification I received few days back from The Economic Times and much to my surprise, I was a follower of the publication.
It usually comes up as "Quote for the day" and I don't hesitate to check out each one whenever it pops up.
Reading through the article was an eye opener to the trajectory of both life and time. At a first glance, I took the stillness to mean inaction and withdrawal from life.
But according to Freeman, that stillness only has to do with a deep, attentive pause where one allows life to move on without interference.
Unconsciously but consciously scrolling down, a good number of wordings triggered my thoughts. Like when the author of the publication expressed that by choosing stillness, one does not disappear from the world but rather begins to see it more clearly.
And again, that stillness creates room to observe patterns instead of being trapped inside them.
Well, I wish I could say I'm in this phase of time, embracing that stillness but who am I kidding?
Taking a pause and letting life go on... Checked.
Observing patterns... Checked.
Trapped inside the patterns... Checked.
More often than not, I could swear I all but watch each day go by. With the only difference being the change in days, everyday rather feels much the same. The universe revolving around me and my own little world around the same set of events.
Time keeps ticking from seconds to minutes and hours moving on to days, weeks and months and here I am, glued at the same phase of my life awaiting the education sector to decide my next line of action, which will equally direct my resolution for the year.
Yuppppp, I've almost mapped out nothing!
I can't tell if I'm eager to break the pattern which has been my life for the past couple of months or I've simply stuck to it. I also don't know how I got here... maybe I do.
Either way, I'll let time do its trick, slip into that stillness and see how it goes with the radiance.
Images are mine
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