Coffee Novelist

Thinking is hard. Reacting isn’t.

Working on something of any worth requires intention and attention. Producing activity is easy. I am not sure about all you all, but I have hard time sitting still. Somewhere inside me a little voice with a big mouth is telling me that I have to be doing something. The little voice with the big mouth is usually right of course. There are always dishes to be done, bills to be paid, the device that is never far away needs a look, or the cat’s litter box needs changed. This little voice talks to me mostly at home. At work the little voice with the big mouth is usually shouted down by other voices, other mouths and other interests.

Producing activity is easy. I think that a lot of this comes about because that time of contemplation, stillness and introspection is costing somebody somewhere some money.

I also think that it has difficult to see any direct immediate benefit to sitting alone with yourself. Where is the benefit? I can’t see it right here, right now so why do it? Yet, that is why we should take the time to sit and not do, not produce, not attempt. The cost is the time, which is most valuable commodity ever. Always has been and always will be. No matter what we do, it is going to pass anyway. Sitting and contemplating isn’t a waste of time. It’s an appreciation, really.