Comparison to the ordinary

A reflection after listening to Dialogues - Issue 3: Relativity in Running

What is an ordinary life? And what is a perfect life?

We can easily extrapolate this to “What is an ordinary run? And “what is a perfect run?”

Is an unforced life - and life without grasping - an “ordinary” life (/run)?

Cultural forces are rooted in comparison, seen often through sport (ability, physique, etc.), make us believe that we can find this state of the unordinary through the non-self.

When… isn’t the ultimate goal and “state” isn’t to be found in the non-self, but rather finding peace in presence?

Seeing what is what is without grasping what you want or don’t want it to be.

It is what is … anything else (i.e. grasping) resists reality.

I also pondered how our human state of relativity changes from the moment we are born, to every moment forward.

The moment we are born, we no longer have a single, conscious form of comparison (in that of our mother), but are forced into a world of “making sense” through never-ending relative thought patterns. It feels that relativity is a byproduct of our human seeking to return to a state of simplicity.

Because, in our simplest forms, that state is us… the self. Or, perhaps, the self + our mother.

From here, we could continue with the interconnectedness of all beings, and that even in the womb, we were a product of all experiences - human, nature, and otherwise - that compounded into the moment(s) of us being alive.

Which, lands me on a meditation I have been drawn to lately, on finding balance between the scale and beauty of the interconnectedness of all things (often seen as “outside”).

Knowing that the same interconnectedness with the universe can be found inside.