Circumspection has been my focus lately. It’s amazing how much can be observed about life when I actually come up out of a deep slumber of everyday life to actually inspect something. It’s like I’m walking around eyes wide open however snoozing all day long.

In order for me to be awake I have to remind myself of what I’m doing constantly.

A father instructed his child to observe with his eyes wherever he went. Then he would ask the child what he observed. Eventually the child learned to observe so acutely … all he had to do was walk in a place and within one minute he could recall accurately every last detail of where they had just been.

And then I think about how unconscious I am … I don’t observe well at all. This seems like an advantage to develop this ability. And to do it I will have to monitor myself continuously in order to keep from falling into a deep sleep of non observation as I progress through my day.

I also can see how it would develop my mind in ways it isn’t right now. So am I up to the challenge?

Well I had better write it down because if I don’t, I’ll wake up 10 days later to the fact that I haven’t observed anything at all and that I’ve been sleep walking through my life. I can feel the laziness wanting to overtake me.

It takes a lot of concentration to observe and then remember it well enough to repeat it or write it down. Well, to do it or not do, it is the question. It’s interesting that I could even observe that I wasn’t observing.