"THE FEAR THAT YOU ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO CHANGE"Alazia (Ancient Greek: Ἀλαζία) - a city of ancient Mysia near the River Odrysses, which flows out of Lake Dascylitis from the west through the plain of Mygdonia and empties into the Rhyndacus ( Wikipedia ) OR It can be an abstract noun depicting an emotion that had no "name" in the English language until John Koenig came along and coined his "Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows" . If Webster can do it , he can too. Do step into this portal , its a whole new world of words and makes you think ! www.thedictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/words ⚡ALAZIA⚡ When you were born, you could have been anybody. So quick and malleable, your parents could look at your face and see a future president. They tried to mold you as you grew, but they could only work with what they had. And when their tools stopped working, they gradually handed them off to you, asking, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” There’s a certain art to becoming who you are. There’s no standard kit you can use to assemble yourself, swapping out parts as needed. Instead, it feels more like a kind of stretching, a teasing out at the edges, like a glassblower standing at the furnace. A teenage personality is a delicate medium, its emotions almost too heavy to handle. You had to figure out a way to keep yourself together and tease out the good parts without falling out of balance or stretching yourself too thin. You couldn’t stop everything to try to fix your flaws, but you couldn’t just ignore them either. Luckily, you were nothing if not flexible, softened by the heat of youth, which kept you warm on a dingy couch or a night in the wilderness. You knew that you weren’t just you, you were also the person you would one day become. So even when you failed, you could still be whatever you wanted to be. As long as you kept moving. Inevitably you got hit, and you got hurt. You prided yourself on how well you absorbed the blow, bouncing back as if nothing had happened. But the pain changed you, in little chips and cracks that might take you years to notice. Over time you learned how to position yourself in very specific ways, protecting the most vulnerable parts of your psyche, even as you knew they were still a crucial part of the real you. Gradually you became more and more reluctant to move from that position. Growing a little harder, a little more brittle. Greek αλλάζω (allázo), to change + dysplasia, abnormal development of tissue. Pronounced “uh- ley-zhuh” or “ah-ley-zee-uh.” www.thedictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/concept/alazia
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** Only once **Ichi-go ichi-e (Japanese: 一期一会, pronounced [it͡ɕi.ɡo it͡ɕi.e], lit. "one time, one meeting") is a Japanese four-character idiom (yojijukugo) that describes a cultural concept of treasuring the unrepeatable nature of a moment. The term has been roughly translated as "for this time only", and "once in a lifetime". The term reminds people to cherish any gathering that they may take part in, citing the fact that any moment in life cannot be repeated; even when the same group of people get together in the same place again, a particular gathering will never be replicated, and thus each moment is always a once-in-a-lifetime experience.[1] The concept is most commonly associated with Japanese tea ceremonies, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichi-go_ichi-e See also an article by Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles , authors of Ikigai www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/what-is-ichigo-ichie-10-rules-of-the-japanese-way-to-happiness  “I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson  If we can run a marathon , why not a thought-a-thon ? Isn't that what every day is ? Batting and fielding the 60,000 odd thoughts our monkey mind throws at us ? A mental game of tennis , more like a practice session with those tireless automated machines hurling curved balls at you ! You stand there , racquet in hand , all warmed up , quickly spur yourself into action , ready to retort and give it your best. Split-second decision-making ! Which ones to attempt , which ones to smash , which ones to stay clear of . Which ones are productive , which ones harbor inspiration , which ones are purposeless. Creative thoughts are like a gust of wind down a hillside. Come at you with a great whoosh and sometimes gone before you know it. Grab that little handy notebook , your kryptonite and best defense in the face of unseen power and capture-those-thoughts.html Related concepts from "Deep Creativity" - by Deborah, Jennifer & Dennis - Creative Flooding , experiencing a Thought-a-thon ? 💕💕 - Creative Resistance - and the opposite - writer's block ? 🤔🤔 - Everyday Reverence - the sacred is in the daily, and the daily is sacred. Questions to ask yourself to foster innate creativity that lies within each one of us in some form - Who or what is your muse ? Where is your creative temple ? Seven ways to access and evoke inspiration - 1. Love 2. Nature 3. The Muse 4. Suffering 5. Practice 6. Sacred 7. Art So whether a marathon or that daily thought-a-thon , run with realism , perspective , gratitude , mindfulness and grit.  In 2005, the National Science Foundation published an article summarizing research on human thoughts per day. It was found that the average person has about 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day. Of those thousands of thoughts, 80% were negative, and 95% were exactly the same repetitive thoughts as the day before. There was another interesting study (Leahy, 2005, Study of Cornell University), in which scientists found that, firstly 85% of what we worry about never happens. Secondly with the 15% of the worries that did happen, 79% of the subjects discovered that either they could handle the difficulty better than expected, or that the difficulty taught them a lesson worth learning.
The conclusion is that 97% of our worries are baseless and result from an unfounded pessimistic perception. Mind Matters: How To Effortlessly Have More Positive Thoughts tlexinstitute.com/how-to-effortlessly-have-more-positive-thoughts/  (Japanese) Kin = golden tsugi = joinery It means, literally, ‘to join with gold’. In Zen aesthetics, the broken pieces of an accidentally-smashed pot should be carefully picked up, reassembled and then glued together with lacquer inflected with a very luxuriant gold powder. There should be no attempt to disguise the damage, the point is to render the fault-lines beautiful and strong. The precious veins of gold are there to emphasize that breaks have a philosophically-rich merit all of their own. In addition to serving as an aesthetic principle, Kintsugi has long represented prevalent philosophical ideas. Namely, the practice is related to the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, which calls for seeing beauty in the flawed or imperfect. KINTSUGI IN MY LIFE  Embracing Imperfection , Respecting chinks and scars , Valuing the red herring , Savouring unique experiences , Looking behind flaws to discover beauty , Shattered fragments tell inspiring stories. Battle scarred and worn , they have endured and won. The very act of repair is therapeutic and a reflection of love. Repair gives hope and borders on the divine. Repair heralds in the journey of healing. The intention to fix , keep , retain as opposed to discard or trade in for newer and better. Its humbling to see old school values coming back as we begin to heal the earth. Dad’s famous line of “Waste not , want not” reverberates. That was his frugal family motto. Not very well received by the trendy teenager then , but imbibed by the semi centennial now. Old is gold. You need a base of gold to hold a rock-solid diamond or precious stone in a beautiful jewellery setting. We are unable to rewind the movie of life. But we can cherish what we have and move forward with increased wisdom. Kintsugi in relationships and marriages. Here’s to our 35th . In celebration of our love, our challenges , our weaknesses , the uniqueness of our journey together . Anthem Leonard Cohen Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in (( Click this link to listen to an inspiring song by Leonard Cohen )) anthem.html "The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places" - Ernest Hemingway 26-October-2021 Related concept - WABI SABI
Extracted from a strange email to Romeo on Wabi Sabi concept in interiors and paintings. What is wabi-sabi? In Japanese, wabi-sabi (わび さび/侘寂) means to get rid of the unnecessary and to pursue the essence of nature. It is the quintessential Japanese aesthetic, a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. A beauty of things modest and humble. Accepting the natural cycle of growth and decay in which everything has beauty. Wabi(侘び) originally referred to the loneliness of living in nature, remote from society, which is a low-key decoration and appearance. While Sabi(寂び) means “lonely” or “withering”, its reference to an old style. Retronym Noun A retronym is a newer name for an existing thing that differentiates the original form/version from a more recent one. It is thus a word or phrase created to avoid confusion between two types, whereas previously (before there was more than one type), no clarification was required. The term retronym, a neologism composed of the combining forms retro- (from Latin retro , "before") + -nym (from Greek ónoma, “name”), was coined by Frank Mankiewicz around 1980 Advances in technology are often responsible for the coinage of retronyms. For example, the term "acoustic guitar" was coined with the advent of electric guitars; analog watches were renamed to distinguish them from digital watches once the latter were invented. A nostalgic journey to 50-plussers since we have lived through these changes, and chuckle as we have to specify what we now mean. Fun examples – can you contribute some more ? Analog watch Film camera Desktop computer Brick-and-mortar store Electric guitar Conventional oven Silent movie Paperback book Manual toothbrush Birth mother Snail mail Time stamps ( Gen Z's might not even know what postage stamps are !!! ) |
