A Frodo Christmas

Sometimes you can almost feel it when the rest of the world has relaxed and climbed off their hamster wheel. It’s a good feeling, whether you do really feel it or imagine you feel it.

Everything used to close down every Sunday the same way it does on Christmas.  Why only 1 Day off per year versus 52? It’s no wonder we’re slowly going more insane.

Today was probably the only time I’ve felt so good doing absolutely nothing, without the familiar self-induced guilt trips about using one day to do nothing. I think in the course of history, it’s pretty new to be afraid to rest. And for some reason we’re all contributing to the conditioning of one another to work ourselves mental. Not only is work something that we feel we have to do to be respected by others, but it becomes the source of our identity.

What’s the first thing people talk about with other?

“So, what do you do?”

The thing about work is, people have to tout how hard they work at this-or-that so they can buy this-or-that and get married to him-or-her. Taking a day to do nothing is unheard of and frightening to people. This isn’t about using one day to be lazy, which has it’s own toxic qualities about it, but it’s about becoming potential (versus kinetic) energy for a moment.

Heaven forbid we experience ourselves silently in our own houses.

Of course, everything-in-moderation. The human body is a product of nature, and nature is about balance. A wave has got to recede after forcing itself on shore. Trees have got to chillax a couple seasons to start pushing out greens again.

Today I read The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, drank wine, watched Lord of the Rings, and didn’t open a single present. Delights.

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Please Listen to Ben’s wonderful Christmas song he created just for your Christmas, 2009.