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Extra Dark Toast

This toast got too dark--I have butter and cinnamon, but it is also all I have. I'm spreading the butter very thinly and it scratches against the burnt grains--it gets louder and louder. The cinnamon comes next, splashing like water on fire. It would've been easier if I just didn't burn the toast, but I did. It would have been simpler if I just stopped--just stopped thinking far too much.

Today it Starts

There is a sense of urgency in life today to keep moving forward at the fastest pace possible. It's utterly exhausting. We need to be in constant awareness, or shallow attentiveness I should say. It's not actual awareness, it's a weak kind of alertness. Frankly, this is just flat out morbid. I plan to start practicing a life where I am more aware of what's around me. Taking time to: 1. Sit in silence 2. Pray more 3. Live in the moment 4. Worry less 5. "Un-load" my plate 6. Break robotic habits 7. Love Okay, besides the last one, number six means the most to me. I can't even count how many robotic habits I have. I unconsciously do so many tasks that I don't even like doing.  I'm not talking about cleaning the toilet or loading the dishwasher--I'm talking about choices, things I don't actually have to do. For example, the times when you talk to someone about how you're doing and you just blatantly lie in your r...