Spiritual Inventory

Seclusion is bad? Maybe it’s because we’re gregarious beings and need to interact with others in order to progress. But spending some quality time alone is as important as being around with people. Sometimes we are impulsive to take action and then regret what we’ve done. If we can slow down and think twice, it will probably not be so doomful…

Things have slowed down a little bit; and I can do some personal inventory of spirituality. I realize how impatient I am at times. It seems dreadful to conjure up a brilliant idea or method in the project I’m implementing. Well, I reckon a nice walk is usually helpful to me.

On my way to teaching tonight, I swung by a French bookstore. Again I bought books… I got myself two books: Maupassant’s “La Petite Roque” and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s “Discours sur l’origine et les fondements de l’inégalité parmi les homes”. These are the books I always wanted to read in the past but never got a chance doing so. Now, I’m glad I can read them.

Recently, I’ve been able to locate some high school buddies. It’s really weird, not in a bad sense, but a great one. I haven’t seen those classmates for many years and of course every one leads a different life. I just thought: Wow, we’re no longer high school teens and what have I done to my life?

I remember P. used to tell me how she envied us being young and energetic. I just laughed over what she said and took what I got for granted. Yeah, time will never come back and the course of life has been set in many aspects. Fortunately, I know exactly what I want for my life and am enjoying myself very much.

My mother called me yesterday and said she is learning English now. I thought that was kewl! It’s never too late to learn something, is it? Well, at least motivation can help us acquire new things more efficiently. That’s why I want to keep learning new knowledge with a clear motive. To be candid, I don’t want to get Alzheimer’s disease when I get old and I want to be smarter as time moves on…

Today I learned archeologists in Peru found some mummified dogs, about 20 of them, in an excavation. They speculated dogs were actually well protected and people in that époque believed dogs also possessed a soul. How interesting it is! The breed seemed to be some kind of golden retriever. Archeologists are still working to find out whether those dogs were the unique breed in South America…So, what did you learn today?