Chinese philosopher Confucius said “No matter where you go, there you are “and according to the World Wide Web, Thomas Kempis was also meant to have mumbled something to this effect, even before Confucius in 1440, with the words “So, the cross is always ready and waits for you everywhere. You cannot escape it no matter where you run, for wherever you go you are burdened with yourself. Wherever you go, there you are.”
Once again I found myself at work today doing a repetitive task and musing over what I was doing with my life.
As usual the fantasy of jacking it all in came to mind in the random hope that I might find what I’m looking for in some remote land. ‘I might find myself’ as people are fond of saying.
As I said these words, I looked at them literally and thought about them. Find myself? I’m here, I know where I am. It doesn’t matter where I go I’m still there. I can’t get away from me!
But the interesting thing I thought, was that if I’m trying to find myself, that presupposes that ‘myself is hiding’. And since in that moment it was my job that prompted the thought, It led me to think about what I was hiding from within the job I do, …….and so off I went in my mind for a happy afternoon of contemplation.
Sometimes we look in totally the wrong location to find the answers we want.
By sometimes listening to what we say to ourselves ‘literally’ we can often find clues to why we are where we are and what we can do to remedy it rather than simply leaving it to chance.
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