Hmmm, it depends. Do I have my current awareness? Or am I starting from scratch?
Either way, I guess my approach would be about the same as my current approach. I would try to be open to new experiences and absorb as much as I could. You know, try to be present.
I might ask more questions as my younger self. I definitely would hope to not have a FT job at a computer. Times have definitely changed, never used to be this way too when I first started working. More interaction with co-workers, more walking around the office etc
I don´t know really, but I would take the chance to begin anew, if ever possible. At the very first day of my life, given the awareness of today, there might be the shift in perspective, gratefulness, curiosity and reason to trust and hope for the good outcome of things. A new beginning. Living the joyful and vivid soul which lives inside, to the joy of my dear people; And space for music! and for recovery in in nature. Flowing with life, being in the moment and letting go of fearful clinging to self-built hinderances might be possible; opening up to be of service for others possibly deeper than before, a shift from will to gratefully following the flow of life in awareness and loving kindness whith full engagement in serving others. Hoping to letting go / avoiding of naming things and building forms through doing so, which might be on its way then. Like a blank sheet at the very first day of life and a great chance when starting anew to keep this perspective, while staying open for others and for what is meant to be.
I’m not sure what might shift… everything? First day of my life as a baby? A teenager? Adult? When is this day and where am I?
At the same time, I think I may have had quite a few first days of my life, other than that day in November when I was birthed into the world over 53 years ago.
When I left my ex-husband and moved in with a friend, that day felt like a first day. So hopeful, so happy, and a feeling of freedom I never felt before.
The day that I got onto a plane alone to go surfing in Costa Rica. Again, so happy and free. So excited and peaceful at the same time, and so grateful to take my dream trip and soak up the jungle vibes and beautiful culture that they have down there.
The concert I went to with my now husband back in July 2019. Our first outing together. Not a date. But it felt different – natural, fun, and I knew in my heart that there was something special ahead for us.
And lastly, the first yoga class I taught in person last May. So nervous, excited, fearful, happy – just completely overwhelmed, but in all good ways. I stepped into the role I wasn’t sure would ever happen if you’d have asked me 10 years ago. That was a really cool first day for me.
I am reminded of the old saying, this is the first day of the rest of your life… I suppose this could apply to every day that we wake up! I’m grateful for today. Trees are blooming, color is coming back, including lots of yellow pollen 🤧 but I’ll take that over lots of snow!
You’re reminding me that I’ve said more than once that every day is New Year’s day. Every day has 365 days stretching out in front of us. Thank you for the prompt to think of the many “first days” I’ve had in my life.
I love how you have
woven the threads of some of your ‘first days’
into such a wonderful tapestry,
dear SunnyPatti . . .
you
recall those feelings in me,
and for that I thank you . . . ♥
I would notice things, phenomena that I currently take for granted or do not acknowledge at all. I would take in all the wonder & awe surrounding me. I would experience the world around me with fresh eyes. I would pause & take it all in & smile.
🕊️🩷
This is not my favorite hypothetical. I have questions. Am I an infant in this scenario? Am I starting over fresh as an adult, ignoring or shedding all current ties and commitments? Am I waking up full-blown in my current life as a new person, like someone who’s had a stroke that changed me? This has a flavor of New Year’s resolutions for me–“a whole new you in just 30 days if you do this one thing every day.”
I don’t want to shed my current life. I guess I could decide that the way I’ve been approaching or responding to various things can be different because it’s my first day, but I don’t have a lot of things I’d change.
I’ll just appreciate my current life all over again and really look at it. I have a warm, soft cat on my lap, curled up facing away from me because he trusts me. My poor sweet husband is dozing next to me, knocked out with a fever due to reactions from his second shingles shot. Usually he makes my coffee but this morning I did it while he rested and took his temperature. I have the gift of time on my calendar this morning for some work that requires concentration, and that’s rare and wonderful. The rain last night made everything fresh and clean (and it’s not done with us). The tree out front is blooming pink, the tree in back is blooming white, and I can see both from where I sit thanks to having a large open space from our remodel a couple of years ago. As far as I know, everyone in my extended family is healthy and happy, and my friends are doing fine. I have improv rehearsal tonight so I’ll get to laugh and play.
Yes, Barb! I kind of started my response in a similar way… there are too many hypotheticals with this question. I need more specifics! But then it also led to thinking about things in my current life the way you have reflected on yours. I hope your husband feels better soon 🙏🏼
This may or may not
have anything to do with today’s Question,
but when I saw this talk years ago,
it had a profound effect on my life,
Jill Bolte Taylor
woke up to the first day of her life
when she was a fully grown adult.
If you have the time and the inclination
“My Stroke of Insight”
might speak to you too. ♥
ps. I apologize for the ads.
I’d go outside, marvel at the yard, at what will become the garden, see everything in my immediate vicinity with fresh eyes. Having done that, I’d probably start pulling weeds, because all the internal projects bugging me wouldn’t be there.
I don’t know about today being the first day of my life but I know that today is the day I’ve been given. May I embrace it and be open and present to it.
I’m already living closer to that through my laid back lifestyle with a couple part-time piano performing jobs. I have more energy to explore interests and form my BosLoc buddy system of common ground.
I would have more awe and wonder in my nonverbal expressions. And probably lots of questions—“how does this work? What is this____?” Good question! Wednesday is here. Peace and cheer y’all 🫶🏽☮️
The shift of perspective and wonder. I would be able to view everything here on earth with non conceptual thought. When a child is told the given name of a bird, they will never see that bird again. May you all have enough. Peace, Love & Light.
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Hmmm, it depends. Do I have my current awareness? Or am I starting from scratch?
Either way, I guess my approach would be about the same as my current approach. I would try to be open to new experiences and absorb as much as I could. You know, try to be present.
I might ask more questions as my younger self. I definitely would hope to not have a FT job at a computer. Times have definitely changed, never used to be this way too when I first started working. More interaction with co-workers, more walking around the office etc
I don´t know really, but I would take the chance to begin anew, if ever possible. At the very first day of my life, given the awareness of today, there might be the shift in perspective, gratefulness, curiosity and reason to trust and hope for the good outcome of things. A new beginning. Living the joyful and vivid soul which lives inside, to the joy of my dear people; And space for music! and for recovery in in nature. Flowing with life, being in the moment and letting go of fearful clinging to self-built hinderances might be possible; opening up to be of service for others possibly deeper than before, a shift from will to gratefully following the flow of life in awareness and loving kindness whith full engagement in serving others. Hoping to letting go / avoiding of naming things and building forms through doing so, which might be on its way then. Like a blank sheet at the very first day of life and a great chance when starting anew to keep this perspective, while staying open for others and for what is meant to be.
I like this. I like this a lot. 🙏
I’m not sure what might shift… everything? First day of my life as a baby? A teenager? Adult? When is this day and where am I?
At the same time, I think I may have had quite a few first days of my life, other than that day in November when I was birthed into the world over 53 years ago.
When I left my ex-husband and moved in with a friend, that day felt like a first day. So hopeful, so happy, and a feeling of freedom I never felt before.
The day that I got onto a plane alone to go surfing in Costa Rica. Again, so happy and free. So excited and peaceful at the same time, and so grateful to take my dream trip and soak up the jungle vibes and beautiful culture that they have down there.
The concert I went to with my now husband back in July 2019. Our first outing together. Not a date. But it felt different – natural, fun, and I knew in my heart that there was something special ahead for us.
And lastly, the first yoga class I taught in person last May. So nervous, excited, fearful, happy – just completely overwhelmed, but in all good ways. I stepped into the role I wasn’t sure would ever happen if you’d have asked me 10 years ago. That was a really cool first day for me.
I am reminded of the old saying, this is the first day of the rest of your life… I suppose this could apply to every day that we wake up! I’m grateful for today. Trees are blooming, color is coming back, including lots of yellow pollen 🤧 but I’ll take that over lots of snow!
You’re reminding me that I’ve said more than once that every day is New Year’s day. Every day has 365 days stretching out in front of us. Thank you for the prompt to think of the many “first days” I’ve had in my life.
Keep having those first days, SunnyPatti! ♥️
I love how you have
woven the threads of some of your ‘first days’
into such a wonderful tapestry,
dear SunnyPatti . . .
you
recall those feelings in me,
and for that I thank you . . . ♥
Question everything comes to mind – natural curiosity…
I would notice things, phenomena that I currently take for granted or do not acknowledge at all. I would take in all the wonder & awe surrounding me. I would experience the world around me with fresh eyes. I would pause & take it all in & smile.
🕊️🩷
This is not my favorite hypothetical. I have questions. Am I an infant in this scenario? Am I starting over fresh as an adult, ignoring or shedding all current ties and commitments? Am I waking up full-blown in my current life as a new person, like someone who’s had a stroke that changed me? This has a flavor of New Year’s resolutions for me–“a whole new you in just 30 days if you do this one thing every day.”
I don’t want to shed my current life. I guess I could decide that the way I’ve been approaching or responding to various things can be different because it’s my first day, but I don’t have a lot of things I’d change.
I’ll just appreciate my current life all over again and really look at it. I have a warm, soft cat on my lap, curled up facing away from me because he trusts me. My poor sweet husband is dozing next to me, knocked out with a fever due to reactions from his second shingles shot. Usually he makes my coffee but this morning I did it while he rested and took his temperature. I have the gift of time on my calendar this morning for some work that requires concentration, and that’s rare and wonderful. The rain last night made everything fresh and clean (and it’s not done with us). The tree out front is blooming pink, the tree in back is blooming white, and I can see both from where I sit thanks to having a large open space from our remodel a couple of years ago. As far as I know, everyone in my extended family is healthy and happy, and my friends are doing fine. I have improv rehearsal tonight so I’ll get to laugh and play.
That’s a pretty great first day.
Indeed it is a pretty great day, Barb. ♥️
Enjoy improv, Barb!
Yes, Barb! I kind of started my response in a similar way… there are too many hypotheticals with this question. I need more specifics! But then it also led to thinking about things in my current life the way you have reflected on yours. I hope your husband feels better soon 🙏🏼
It sounds like a pretty great day,
dear Barb . . .
certainly a day worth living. ♥
I think what might shift would be my lack of expectation – for good or bad. And I would hopefully not be so inclined to take things for granted.
This may or may not
have anything to do with today’s Question,
but when I saw this talk years ago,
it had a profound effect on my life,
Jill Bolte Taylor
woke up to the first day of her life
when she was a fully grown adult.
If you have the time and the inclination
“My Stroke of Insight”
might speak to you too. ♥
ps. I apologize for the ads.
https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_my_stroke_of_insight
I’d go outside, marvel at the yard, at what will become the garden, see everything in my immediate vicinity with fresh eyes. Having done that, I’d probably start pulling weeds, because all the internal projects bugging me wouldn’t be there.
The projects I could start if I didn’t have unfinished ones waiting–love this.
I don’t know about today being the first day of my life but I know that today is the day I’ve been given. May I embrace it and be open and present to it.
I’m already living closer to that through my laid back lifestyle with a couple part-time piano performing jobs. I have more energy to explore interests and form my BosLoc buddy system of common ground.
I would have more awe and wonder in my nonverbal expressions. And probably lots of questions—“how does this work? What is this____?” Good question! Wednesday is here. Peace and cheer y’all 🫶🏽☮️
I would better appreciate the preciousness of each moment.
Mary Mantei, it’s easier to do that with a refreshed mind.
The shift of perspective and wonder. I would be able to view everything here on earth with non conceptual thought. When a child is told the given name of a bird, they will never see that bird again. May you all have enough. Peace, Love & Light.
♥
Thank you Joseph!