Clarity About Urgency To Live
The convergence of urgency and comfort invites an opportunity to shift an experience with an altered perception of time.
A perception of time could be swayed by thoughts or feelings on both extremes of the spectrum. One perception is the distorted illusion of unlimited time and the other extreme could be the belief of being stuck in moments or experiences.
When I think of time, from the standpoint from beginning to end in the current life, it does not seem unlimited. I also think of time as being infinite. The belief that time has no end. It seems like a confliction of what time is. It could be subjective if someone believes that physical life may end, and the spiritual journey continues.
To focus on the specific physical presence in life would suggest there is a path to the end.
When the end appears, there can be an assumption that there are many reflective insights that arise for the time lived.
Documented thoughts from others near the end of their life include appreciations, regrets, forgiveness, remorse, love.
Why it takes a lifetime to realize the reflective insights
The false reality many people hold in their mind is commonly mistaking they have unlimited time in their life.
At what points in life do people start thinking about time as a precious gift?
Usually there are disruptions or reminders that interrupt the false reality of unlimited time.
It could be when someone close, like a best friend or family member passes away. A revelation for the physical end of life. A gentle prompt of reality for aging and mortality.
It may or may not persuade one’s perspective of time. It definitely infuses the curiosity to think about it.
Curiosity could then lead someone down a tunnel of despair thinking about everything they “must do now” with a maintained focus on the ending.
It isn’t about the time urgency to do tasks. It is about the time urgency to be the person you envision being in your life.
Am I taking the time to love others and myself?
Am I taking the time to appreciate the moments in life?
Am I taking the time to live with inner peace?
Looking deeper into these individual questions, the answers reside in the question, “what does this mean to me?”
What living with urgency really means
I believe it is a simple philosophy.
To live with integrity. To live in your values. To love deeply. To care for yourself. To care for others.
There can be many temptations that get in the way of someone not following this philosophy. In most cases, following the ego leads us astray.
Attachment to the thoughts of anger, disappointment, failure are some of the major attention grabbers for the ego. Depending how intense the attachment is will determine how long the ego will be followed on the journey. Gradually taking someone further and further away from the simple philosophies they want to live by. The perception becomes; they no longer seem simple.
Days, months and years pass. Not realizing the habits and perceptions have denied the proper love and caring that was always wanted.
This includes escaping, avoiding and running away from challenges that life is presenting. Respect must be given for the current state someone is functioning. However, that does not preclude the potential and possibility of shifting that state. Regaining focus and realigning commitment to the things that are most important. Those “things” of importance are what become urgent to care for.
There is a responsibility to act with urgency. Being accountable not only to oneself, but to others that encompass the ripple effect in life’s sphere of connection.
Redemption of integrity is tightly woven into the values of love and caring. It requires being prompt in those aligned actions.