Deep contemplation...and fucken cheesecake

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

- Aristotle -

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Pass me the blueberry cheesecake and coffee.

- galenkp -

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There's a time for deep contemplation and reflection, to delve within oneself on a journey of discovery to capture what's lays beneath the surface and bring it to into the light to be weighed and measured, picked apart, considered and reconstructed in better ways and sometimes even discarded altogether. It can be difficult to see those things when living life at the rapid, often frenetic, pace society dictates nowadays but contemplation of that kind has immeasurable value.

And...sometimes one just needs to eat some fucken cake and drink coffee.

I'd just finished work, one of those very productive but complicated days that one is generally happy with but also glad to see the end of.

It was a self-inflicted work day meaning I went there on my own accord and because there was no one else around I got a lot done. I'm happy with it, although there was a photocopier incident that brought me (almost) to the brink of great violence (against the photocopier) but it finally did what I was telling it to and so that copier avoided a painful and messy death, for now. I was so pleased with the day I decided to find a little gap in time to celebrate it by way of a coffee and my favourite blueberry cheesecake at a cafe I frequent...well, frequently.

It was legit cheesecake as always.

I've always had the ability to detach, find a gap no matter how small, and to separate myself from whatever is happening which has been critical to my success and progression; it makes me more focused, efficient and effective.

The detachment itself is about resetting myself, standing apart from the moment for a time and into a space in between where I can think more clearly and objectively or draw a line beneath something before moving on; it's a pause as such and that's what my cake and coffee was all about and it allowed me to go home with a nice feeling of being the non-work me rather than simply a nice feeling of a day at work and residual thoughts of work. Maybe I'm not making sense here, but I guess I'm trying to say that putting a little space between my work day and going home, or the immediacy of a situation I'm in, helps me be better, calmer, more objective and lateral thinking or simply just more relaxed...it's a buffer between the frenetic nature of the moment and I emerge more centred.

Or...well I suppose if I'm honest it might just have been a decent excuse to eat some fucken cake and drink a legit coffee.

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Do you ever seek a detachment from the moments or situations you're in and if you do how do you manage it? If not why not, and do you think the detachment process might help you operate more efficiently and effectively? Comment if you'd like to.