You have One Precious, Fragile Life and this is how you are Spending it?

This week in happiness

Sorry for the rude headline, but sometimes we need a harsh wakeup call. (@me)

Retrospective on the reset last week:

For those that missed it I did part of the pilgrimage to Santiago, and tried to use it as a sort of retreat, with less screens, alcohol and processed food.

So I walked probably about 100 km in 5 days, and it was wonderful, on my own living my life meeting new people. I definitely took steps in the right direction when it came to detoxing but I could have pulled through more. I am now back at home and going back into the routine. I think coming back from a reset one thing I am going to try and avoid is falling back into old habits, there is a reason why I left, and why I needed a reset and it is so easy to lose that moment of peace that you created, and I can already feel it slipping away, I am going to try and change the environment I have at home so that is more conducive to what I want to be doing.

Ok on to the topic of this week which connects into this.

You have one precious and fragile life, and this is how you are using it?

Is a question that came to me when I was doing a bit too much roting for my own good. And I am becoming more and more radicalized against screens as the root of all evil. Of course this is an exaggeration I have been able to call my family and friends who are hundreds to thousands of kilometers away and see there faces using Facetime. I must admit. They aren't all bad. But god I have lost so many hours of my life that I can’t get back.

Ok here is an exercise for treasuring this precious thing we have. Go for a walk, leave your phone at home or leave it off, walk and discover new things, get ice cream. Walk slowly. You have no where to be but in this moment now, because that is all there ever is.