Our brains are programmed to respond to emergencies—we pay far more attention to sudden crises than to the large issues that build over time. A plane crash that kills two people gains far more attention than heart disease that claims hundreds on the same day. The threat of terrorism gets far more of a public response than does the threat of climate change. But sometimes what needs our attention is not the emergency, but rather the issues that niggle at the back of our brains, calling for a creative response.
What will you attend to today?
So true.
There were a lot of things I was supposed to do today for my own health and the well-being of my family. Pretty much none of it got done. The bigger goals of social justice and environment justice didn’t get done, either. Instead, the time was spent trying to cope with an emotional crisis. While that was really the only option available to me today, it wasn’t nearly as helpful as progress on any of my actual goals would have been.
Well, about on this date, I was becoming more and more distressed about the capabilities of my computer system. Reliance on technology that one doesn’t understand well can be a harrowing experience. Just explaining what is wrong can be an incredibly frustrating experience. In retrospect, I am now catching up with Daily Compass; wiser perhaps; calmer; in touch again; a bit less rich; so be it!