Whatever That Means, the Day.

2024.07.07

A few books have been useful to me over my lifetime. There's Emerson's essays. There's If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland. Those are the major two. Perhaps some time with both of them today will do me some good.

Still acclimating to The Win. What it means and how the days differ in the doing of the day. The circumstances look the same, but the reality, reality itself, has changed.

Like a jet trying to travel mo-ped speed, I do each day. My thoughts are on putters for steps and not high propulsion daydreams blink fast to their destination.

I sit and take flight lessons, how to steer the craft, how to go forward. What forward means. How to enjoy the trip when the trip is only a moment where the mo-ped moping used to be.

Enjoy the day. That's it. That's the whole thing. Enjoy each day. That's the only lesson. The only true goal. The only point and purpose. Enjoy each day.

How to forget the past when the past looked like that?

You don't.

It's a remembrance of how good this moment is. It's a lesson learned. Not a warning sign, a pat on the back that you survived, you won those days so you earned this enjoyment, the one you must give yourself permission to have.

Give yourself permission to enjoy the day. Crown, or not, we are all kings and queens of our own lives, and we must order ourselves around. Must have order in our own courts, must preach peaceful days, must care for our own kingdoms. Must demand enjoyable days from all around, or, at times, excommunicate what does not serve us, and has very little chance, without a lot of strife, to ever do us any good. Good meaning what adds to the enjoyment of each day.

The word of the day is enjoyment. Shaping each hour, each increment, to best suit my ability to do so. And then to do so.

First, I must define what enjoyment means to me. One cannot have a good life if one never defines what a good life means.

Without any definition of enjoyment one can never know it. If we don't know what a chair is, or even that it exists, we can never sit down on one. There is no reality of anything without the word for that specific reality.

So, the words come first. And then we sit and enjoy, whatever that means, the day.

One moment at a time.