Walden
07 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
in Book, Environment, sustainability
The other day, I just happened to come across the book “Walden” by Henry David Thoreau in Amazon book store. It was being sold at a rather cheap price, so I decided to buy and save this book.
Or maybe the book was trying to save me.
I first met this book when I was still in high school in my English class. At the time, I was really struggling with classes held in English. Born as a book lover, it caused me so much pain in all the reading classes because I was not able to appreciate the beauty of the language used in books written in English. No, even worse, I did not sometimes even understand the main theme of the book, let alone the beauty of the flow of the story itself. Walden was one of them. All I wished was to escape from my miserable English class.
After more than a decade, it just appeared again in my life! Is the book calling me now to say that now I am ready to restart the journey with the book?
Well, let me start my journey again. I have this feeling that this time, I will enjoy the experience of sharing my moments (probably my bed time reading moments) with the book.
If it does not exist, you just need to create it.
05 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
in life
At my work, I do weekly yoga sessions during lunch time.
The yoga sessions are held in a normal meeting room of the company I work.
Since it is a normal meeting room, there is no “yoga studio” atmosphere at all in the meeting room – it is just a boring room with meeting tables, chairs and phones with a grey carpet underneath them.
So we first move the tables and chairs to create a nice big space for us to practice yoga. Then we put our “yoga mats” on the floor, usually bath towels or pareos (the long textile that we use to wrap ourselves when we are in bikinis). And we are ready.
With the colourful textile and towel “yoga mats” and the sun light coming in from the window, the meeting room turns into a nice comfortable yoga space. After 1 hour of yoga, we are refreshed and so as the room.
The other day, one of the participants in the class came with a little bottle of herbal air spray. She sprayed it onto everybody’s yoga mat and during the entire session, we enjoyed the nice herbal aroma embracing us.
Just like this, we create an amazing yoga studio and share a nice moment together.
Well, if you want something and it does not exist, then you just need to create it!
