http://www.velocityculture.com/uncategorized/awareness-awakeness-and-day-dreaming/ Creativity / Theology / Culture / Spirituality Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.velocityculture.com/uncategorized/awareness-awakeness-and-day-dreaming/comment-page-1/#comment-322 Carel Snyman Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:04:02 +0000 http://www.velocityculture.com/?p=1232#comment-322 Daydreaming. Friday last week saw me driving back from my cousin’s funeral. A two hour drive provides time for serious self conversation, introspection, and day dreaming. My thoughts and conversation naturally mostly centred on my cousin. Johanna died at the age of sixty five, but what made her special was that as a child at the age of four, she had contracted cerebral malaria. This left her severely mentally handicapped. Her intellect never surpassed that of a nine year old. What she did have in abundance though was concern, interest, and empathy for everybody she came to know. She was always willing to help, even though her talents and her attention span were limited. Her possessions were sparse and humble. All she possessed basically was the mind of a child, the trust of a child, a childlike faith, and a complete dependence on the care and compassion of others. She lived her life as it came, without malice, and in living she touched so many others, bringing out the best in them! Comparing this with how the rest of us use, and misuse, the God given intellect we have been blessed with, I couldn’t help wondering - in the final analysis, who is better off? Just a thought. Daydreaming.
Friday last week saw me driving back from my cousin’s funeral. A two hour drive provides time for serious self conversation, introspection, and day dreaming. My thoughts and conversation naturally mostly centred on my cousin. Johanna died at the age of sixty five, but what made her special was that as a child at the age of four, she had contracted cerebral malaria. This left her severely mentally handicapped. Her intellect never surpassed that of a nine year old. What she did have in abundance though was concern, interest, and empathy for everybody she came to know. She was always willing to help, even though her talents and her attention span were limited.
Her possessions were sparse and humble. All she possessed basically was the mind of a child, the trust of a child, a childlike faith, and a complete dependence on the care and compassion of others. She lived her life as it came, without malice, and in living she touched so many others, bringing out the best in them! Comparing this with how the rest of us use, and misuse, the God given intellect we have been blessed with, I couldn’t help wondering – in the final analysis, who is better off?
Just a thought.

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