It’s all about balance but balance is such a hard thing to find. The world, particularly this modern world, is set up to excite, entertain, distract - keep you so busy that at times you have no idea what you are doing, why you are doing it, where you are going, or what is there for you when you get there.Our world has lost its balance. We have lost our balance. I have lost my balance. So here's a remedy, something to help - well it helps me.
Take a walk on a beach and pick up some pebbles. Try not to choose them for any other reason than you like the look of them or they talk to you. Take them to your place and get to know them. Hold them in your hands, feel their weight, find their balance, understand the shape of each of your pebbles, how they sit with each other, where their contours are – and when you know them as individuals, balance them with each other. On their tops, by their sides, underneath, upright, horizontal, whatever takes your whim - but balance them, ten minutes a day.
It won’t make the world go away but it will for a while restore your balance, make you feel a little more at one, a little better about things.
Try it – what have you got to lose?
You should write a management blog
ReplyDeleteThis is very, very interesting Andrew!
ReplyDeleteI will try this and I will tell you how it was.
Anyway, the pictures are very beautiful and they give me a zen feeling.
Alan Spence ranted in an e-mail:
ReplyDelete'What have you got too lose' Your sanity that's what you've got to lose.
You will end up trying to balance pebbles on top of each other, until you get to the point where it is impossible to do so.
Repeated failures attempting to balance such impossibly shaped pebbles will ultimately make you anxious, tense and bring you to the brink of lunacy.
If you can't keep your balance you will topple over in to the abyss.
Maybe you should call your pebble balancing - Balance Therapy for Aspiring Lunatics.
You could write a book about it.
Don't end up pebble dashed and insane.
Maybe we are all just pebbles waiting to be balanced?
If pebbles were meant to be balanced precariously on top of each other we would find them like that on the beach, wouldn't we? Wouldn't we? Wouldn't we?
Alan
- Poor, poor chap.
I've got a collection of pebbles on my kitchen window sill but I've never tried balancing them. I like the idea though. I think I would find it relaxing, time tuned out, like I do with jigsaws.
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