Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Muscarra, and in today's episode we're going to talk about reframing the moments that we often deem as important.

More to come on that in a moment.

First, let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. So I'd like to start by reading a poem by Helen Luke.

And the poem is called Important.

We hurry through the so-called boring things in order to tend to that which we deem more

important, interesting. Perhaps the final freedom will be a recognition that

everything in every moment is essential and that nothing at all is important.

Perhaps the final freedom will be a recognition that everything in every moment is essential and that nothing at all is important.

You know, this is one of those ideas.

I don't even know if it's an idea, it's more of a

essential way of being that I find myself always needing to be

be reminded of and often trying to challenge with my more logical cognitive mind.

Right, so you know even the first line, you know, we hurried through the so-called

boring things in order to attend to that which we deem more important and interesting.

And my logical cognitive mind likes to try and justify that and think

through it and go well doesn't that kind of make sense?

I mean, why not, why not live a life, sort of just hurrying through the boring things

so that we can get to the more interesting things, the important things, the problems we're trying to solve, the vacation that we're looking forward to, getting through the work day to see a family or getting through the

the emails in order to get to the end of the day

and relax and meditate or go for a walk.

I mean, isn't it fine to do that?

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