When I woke up this morning, open my eyes and got up, I then came back after a few minutes and I made my bed. I listened to my affirmations and I made my bed. Now later in the day, I was in school in a classroom and I asked how many young people had actually made their bed this morning and very few had made their bed. And the question becomes, why not? Well, some say I don’t have the time, others say my mother will do it.
Some further, I just don’t care. But all sorts of studies show us that if we want to live an integrated life, if we want to grow, if we want to mature, we must begin the day by making our bed. Now it does not have to be a fantastic job. Does not have to be the job that perhaps a hotel would do when it makes our bed for us. Things along this nature.
But it has to be an attempt to close the night and open the new day. Because I guess what a person really doesn’t realize that each and every day is precious, is truly precious whether it’s a good day or a bad day. And of course, people like Sadhguru in India tell us that I can choose whether it’s going to be a good day or a bad day. I can decide. And of course, as I’ve said many times, some days I decide that it’s not going to be a good day.
I’m late. I haven’t done my homework. I’ve had bad dreams and I think I’m the same as all of us. You know. Not every day can be a good day, but there are days when the sun is shining and I hear the birds cooing in the morning and it is a good day.
But either way, whether it’s a bad day or a good day, I always make my bed. And all the pundits say, I must make my bed to begin my day. And then what do I do? Well, I need some form of routine because time is, of course, like water on a table. It just runs everywhere and a routine is something that I create myself and I do every single day and it gives me a structure to my life, a sense of order.
So every day, I make my bed, I then proceed to shave, I then have a shower. I write in my notebook, and I say my prayers every single day. And this is what I do, but of course, everyone has their own ideas. Some people can get up at 5 o’clock in the morning and they go for a run for instance. I can’t do this.
It’s too early for me. But whatever it is, we need a routine. And after we have a routine, then the day begins. We can’t begin to plan what will happen on this magnificent day. And increasingly, we live in a world, I think, that appears to have no order at all.
So how do I document my week? How do I give the week order, if you will? Because I think in reality, to have order every single day is difficult. So I base my life on a week. So on Monday, the week begins.
And normally, on a Monday for me, I make a video or I spend some time because I’m working the rest of the week. So Tuesday through Saturday, I’m usually busy. Sunday, off. I try to have Sunday as a day of rest, day of peace. I say my prayers.
In my case, I go to a church, then I attend a book study. I have the evening with friends if I can, and then Monday starts again. But the highlight or the high point of my week is Saturday evening because Saturday evening, I write my blog. Now I know for sure that my activities are not world famous at all. They’re very humble.
But for me, they give me a sense of order and a sense, if you will, of peace because peace is something that we must nurture ourselves. We can’t do anything but find our own way in this life. Right? You know, because when we wake up at about 20 years of age or so and we have this wonderful thing called consciousness, For most people, at least the tell us for most people, we have a sense of existential angst. We have a sense of fear because now I’m free.
No one can determine what I want to do. No one. It’s up to me. Whether I truly decide to go to school is up to me. Now we get fooled, don’t we, in a way, because we go to school.
Why do I go to school? Well, I go to school to get a job, but that’s a lie because the jobs are changing so dynamically in the modern world. So I should go to school to learn how to learn how to think, not at all, for some specific job unless, of course, I’m a professional, a lawyer, a dentist, a doctor, but even then, I must continue to learn for the rest of my life. And then after this, after I finish my education, I will get a job. And in that job, initially, I will for sure be a wage slave.
I will have to sell my time for money and it is only later that I will actually become free and decide my own path if I want. But many people, most of us maybe, will never be free. We will always be wage slaves, always believe that money will make us free, but sadly, it doesn’t. Money doesn’t. It gives us perhaps material well-being but there are too many stories of unhappy people with a lot of money but conversely, poverty is also not the solution to happiness.
Right? Happiness, as Aristotle tells us, is a journey. A journey towards perfection. Maybe even in a religious or a spiritual sense. Linking once again like perhaps Hegel’s Geist, history unfolding.
But it all begins ultimately with, of course, once again, making my bed. So when I open my eyes, I think to myself, I must make my bed so I can begin the day. And you know what they say, you know what they say. Critical thinking is necessary and certainly it begins with making the bed with some sense of order and critical thinking is great, truly great. You take care. God bless. Bye bye.