Lessons Learned This Weekend

[cjsmith]

• People at ashrams are friendlier than people in my daily life.
• Walking around without shoes on for a couple of hours is a bad idea.
• I need to learn the difference between what I can do and what I won't regret doing. This is harder than it looks, because the immediate pain isn't always proportional to the cost that'll come due later on.
• I need to let go of something I'm clinging to. I don't know what yet.
• If I dip my toe in the pool and it feels "not so bad", it's bad.
• If I'm standing outside the pool and I'm not wet yet and I'm chilly, it's bad.
• Water takes a long time to drain out of my ear.
• I can ride some exercise bikes because I can get my foot far enough forward on the pedal. Rob's exercise bike is like this. However, the seat is so abysmal that I still won't touch that thing. It's possible, maybe, that I think I might actually... rather... (shh! don't say it)... swim.
• I tape my feet better than the PT intern does.

Comments

[abenn.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry that your feet hurt as a result of all the time without shoes, but I'm glad that you otherwise enjoyed the ashram and the people. It was a pleasure to meet you and have you come along. I hope that we get to hang out in some other venue sometime.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I take full responsibility for that achiness, as it was me who decided to look at the items for sale for so long. I need to get better at knowing when I'm crossing the line. It's surprisingly difficult for me to figure that out. I think that perhaps, as mactavish said in a post of hers recently, the line keeps moving. :)

Thank you so much for inviting me and for "shepherding" me! I enjoyed meeting you as well. I'll remember that visit for a long time.