“Everything is a mood. Mood is not some other phenomenon. It is not the window dressing to another view. It is everything; it is the miasma of context in which we live. It is the primordial swamp from which all meaning flows, from which the ooze of language and thought crawled out to build cathedrals and engineer the Internet.”
Beautiful essay, Charlie. Thank you for sharing this raw and important discovery with us. Definitely giving me better perspective for today.
This reminds me of the fish joke, where two fish are swimming along and one of the fish makes a reference to water and the other fish asks, "what the hell is water?" It seems there is no way to see things that have always been present unless you experience their absence. I found the description of your experience very useful regarding mood, but also quite provocative, being left with a sense of wonder about my own pervasive mood or other aspects of consciousness or experience that I take for granted. Is there a way I could cherish even awareness or just being alive itself without having to lose it first?
A book that really crystallized my ADD and the choices I could make was Delivered From Distraction. I also know some very talented coaches who work exclusively with ADHD’ers.
“Everything is a mood. Mood is not some other phenomenon. It is not the window dressing to another view. It is everything; it is the miasma of context in which we live. It is the primordial swamp from which all meaning flows, from which the ooze of language and thought crawled out to build cathedrals and engineer the Internet.”
Beautiful essay, Charlie. Thank you for sharing this raw and important discovery with us. Definitely giving me better perspective for today.
This reminds me of the fish joke, where two fish are swimming along and one of the fish makes a reference to water and the other fish asks, "what the hell is water?" It seems there is no way to see things that have always been present unless you experience their absence. I found the description of your experience very useful regarding mood, but also quite provocative, being left with a sense of wonder about my own pervasive mood or other aspects of consciousness or experience that I take for granted. Is there a way I could cherish even awareness or just being alive itself without having to lose it first?
A book that really crystallized my ADD and the choices I could make was Delivered From Distraction. I also know some very talented coaches who work exclusively with ADHD’ers.
Very interesting and thought provoking.