By their very nature
the things we do as we get older
tend to reduce our moment to moment awareness.
More responsibility means more concentration
for longer periods of time.
This, and the apparent ‘quickening’ of time’s passage,
both contribute and reinforce to accelerate us
into states of ever less awareness.
Habits replace awareness in all the day to day things
so that we can think about higher level things…
our jobs…those ever more absorbing maya traps.
As we age we plan, less and less, our attack on life
and we gradually slip more into mindless patterns.
Our reasons for acting become just memories and habits.
I suspect our very physiological aging causes much of this.
Habits feel more and more comfortable as youth’s
restless energies ebb.
10-20-80
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
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