While sitting in a lounge chair on a recent steamy day I noticed that one leg was running a little hotter. I glanced down and saw that my left leg was brushing against a metal armrest. Meanwhile my right leg had an inch of clearance from the armrest on that side. I felt centered, but was not.
Isn't it easy to get off center? Obsessing over this task, or this person. Saying things so flippantly as to wound others without realizing that we're doing it. There's real cost when we stop being self-aware, when we mistake ourselves for the center of the universe instead of one small part of it.
I shifted in my seat. And this week, tried to shift self-thinking from the role of driver to passenger.
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