I can spend whole nights looking at the starry sky. I can spend hours looking at the moon. I can spend days watching the waves break on the sand. Questioning myself about my life, about life in all its aspects. Is it a disease? Am I a romantic? A melancholic? A dreamer? And you, what kind of human are you?
This is a great question. I'm a daydreamer--it can *look* bad if I'm supposed to be doing something or having a conversation! But I can also be completely entertained sitting under a tree and examining its bark and the insects crawing around it--the ocean and any natural water is also captivating. I just finished Mary Oliver's "A Poetry Handbook" and now I realize that perhaps this ability to lose myself in my environment is not such a bad thing :) Like Sarah and Ayesha, I definitely think too much--I meditate. Sometimes it gets hard to keep up, but I will actually take time out during my work day to schedule in some meditation time. I don't think of it as 'time lost' from work because everything is better when I meditate anyway. Work goes faster, and just better. And actually a last thought...if I don't get time to think, question, daydream during the day? I just wake up at night! My brain just needs that quiet time--more than sleep even.
I am very introspective. I think too much sometimes, about everything! I get distracted by the world around me and gaze at the flowers on my balcony, the lake out front with its fountain always stirring the water... I get enraptured by the sounds of the ducks and geese as they sing their happy songs. And I love the feeling of the sun penetrating my skin, and the clouds hovering in and out, casting lovely shadows on the ground. I am definitely a dreamer, a creature of creativity. I love art of every kind and try to find ways of adapting new art forms to my daily routine, always searching for something more to create, something to inspire. I’ve tried many different art forms but I’d like to do things like paint more often, and draw; I never seem to find enough time to do these things that I love so much. But life is short, right? So I suppose I should just dive right in and make time for those things that truly inspire. :)
This is a great question. I'm a daydreamer--it can *look* bad if I'm supposed to be doing something or having a conversation! But I can also be completely entertained sitting under a tree and examining its bark and the insects crawing around it--the ocean and any natural water is also captivating. I just finished Mary Oliver's "A Poetry Handbook" and now I realize that perhaps this ability to lose myself in my environment is not such a bad thing :) Like Sarah and Ayesha, I definitely think too much--I meditate. Sometimes it gets hard to keep up, but I will actually take time out during my work day to schedule in some meditation time. I don't think of it as 'time lost' from work because everything is better when I meditate anyway. Work goes faster, and just better. And actually a last thought...if I don't get time to think, question, daydream during the day? I just wake up at night! My brain just needs that quiet time--more than sleep even.
I am very introspective. I think too much sometimes, about everything! I get distracted by the world around me and gaze at the flowers on my balcony, the lake out front with its fountain always stirring the water... I get enraptured by the sounds of the ducks and geese as they sing their happy songs. And I love the feeling of the sun penetrating my skin, and the clouds hovering in and out, casting lovely shadows on the ground. I am definitely a dreamer, a creature of creativity. I love art of every kind and try to find ways of adapting new art forms to my daily routine, always searching for something more to create, something to inspire. I’ve tried many different art forms but I’d like to do things like paint more often, and draw; I never seem to find enough time to do these things that I love so much. But life is short, right? So I suppose I should just dive right in and make time for those things that truly inspire. :)
I over think a lot myself. Sometimes, it harms me.