The Night of … 1644
Could You Do It?
What if you had to recap your day – every day before you went to sleep at the risk of losing all of your non-autonomic memories? Could you do it? Would you?
What are autonomic memories?
Everything your vessel remembers to do to keep itself operating. We’d call it “alive.” Breathing. Heartbeat. Filtering the poison and eliminating it from the vessel. Regenerating tissue – that kind of stuff. These are services the body provides for us that we can truly take for granted.
In fact, the more I ponder this system and “who” is running the show, the more I am willing to consider that the human body doesn’t care about what ever we would identify as “Us.” It’s out for itself. And it’s going to fight to keep itself alive, or die trying.
But I don’t want to go down this endless highway. We did it in the show long ago.
This evening’s brief idea comes from nearly deciding to skip tonight’s article.
It was a very less than ordinary day. Still up at 5 AM. Still got the morning calisthenics done. Just not as intense. Then the thunder rolled in and it started to rain. Coincidentally I was editing a segment about a rain day when I didn’t even know it was raining. Despite my Sanctuary Oasis being nestled in a 60 year old building, it’s very weather-proof. No leaks and no sounds of dripping water. If I didn’t look outside I wouldn’t know – most times – that it was raining. During particularly bad storms the thunder and lightning give the show away.
So I was in all day catching up and preparing shows for September and hitting some reps in between. Then, around sunset, after the rain – we ventured outside just to be outside.
There’s no obligation to write these ditties up, so I figured – day off. But then Mind hit me with, “What if you had to summarize the last 16-24 hours of your life every day?”
“Why would I have to do that?” says I.
“For memories,” Mind teases. “Not just fond casual memories, just in case someone might ask. But – for example – you would have to write out everything, or the most significant activities of your waking day in order to pick up where you left off. Otherwise you’d be lost.”
It seems like We could get deep with this, but as mentioned it was that kind of day and even if I did have to chronicle the day, or “le jour” (you know that “jour” means day, right – so a “journey” is a day trip and a “journal” is writing about the day. Just sayin’) I’ve already done it.
“What’s the soup du jour?”
“I don’t know, but they have it every day.”
Usually We have a plan for the day. We didn’t for today. Even though we did.
The sketch is becoming delirious. So maybe we’ll just post this up and call it a day. (It’s a Holiday Weekend.)
SUBSCRIBE
Well you're right about something, what if truly we have to summarize the last 16-24 hours of our life every day?
Are we going to relent and not do what we have scheduled to do? I guess the answer will be no 🙂↔️