jaspurlin in Paducah is doing 29 things including…

Discover myself

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Easiest when I'm not home 2 years ago

Whenever I’m hitchhiking, and living simply, it makes it way easier for me to see into myself. I’m always allowing myself to be exposed to totally different conditions, and ways of life (or rather, I allow myself when I remember to) and this is a huge part of the process.
I like to think of it in this way: my identity or self can be represented by a physical object (seashell, lego block, radish, etc.) while the conditions of life can be represented by a huge amount of sand in a fine sieve. If the object is placed somewhere in the sieve with the sand, eventually, as the sand runs out, the object can be finally seen and perhaps by seeing it, understood. If instead of a sieve, the sand were simply in a large box, then the conditions of life would not be able to change as much, and the object would never be fully revealed.
It’s this analogy that I’ve begun to see just recently as I take time to reflect on my recent travels. As I continually expose myself to elements of change, while staying aware of it, this enables me to see the aspects of my character that are permenant, fixed.

May 22, 2007, 01:35AM PDT | 3 cheers | 4 comments


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