tag:www.ukspirituality.org,2010:/blog/ UKSpirituality Blog Author 2010-07-26T05:14:50Z urn:uuid:0E10D427-FFB7-0963-8EF2508E1D4CCB7D <![CDATA[On being too busy to blog]]> 2010-07-26T05:14:50Z Seneca advised a friend who had just been offered a plum job not to take it – better to contemplate the balance sheet of your own life than the corn trade, he told him – and my lack of recent posts has been largely down to work too. I’ve been too busy to blog, and too preoccupied with earning a crust to have much inspiration to do so, either.]]>

This is a danger we’re all acquainted with. Seneca also wrote on the shortness of life:

Just as travellers are beguiled by conversation or reading or some profound meditation, and  find that they have arrived at their destination before they knew they were approaching it; so it is with this unceasing and extremely fast-moving journey of life, which waking and sleeping we make at the same pace – the preoccupied become aware of it only when it is over.

The last few months of life have whizzed by and haven’t been at all bad, but part of me is conscious that I can’t – and certainly don’t want – to keep up this pace. There is, as the old Stoic would agree, more to life…

I’ve got a holiday coming up soon, after which I hope things will drop a gear or two. The book should also, finally, be coming out so that should be interesting. When I consulted the I Ching about its prospects, I ended up with the Trigram Opposition... which doesn't particularly bother me to be honest. Fortunately there is not one called "Indifference"!

So some things to look forward to, although, as I keep reminding myself, it’s not about the looking forward, but the here and now (which of course I’ll bear in mind when I receive my next outrageous deadline).

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