darkness
January 2009 
Darkness, light, darkness, light….
Posted on Dec 4th, 2008
by 
Mila
Mila
Yesterday our government announced that we will have 45 hours of load shedding every week from today. That’s almost 7 hours a day (if they stick to the plan, it’s a 4 hourly cut-off), given that there would be 24 hours’ supply once a week. But the on and off management went haywire today, 3 hours it went off, came back and again went off after an hour. I don’t know how long before it gets switched off again. Made me reflect.
I wrote on my status “having electricity on and off, as if a child is playing with the grid switch”. I thought of my mind as that child playing tricks with me; lights off when it makes me think of and cling to my past or when it makes my imagination wander into and become anxious of the distant future. Lights on when I am absorbed in the moment, experiencing with all my senses everything around me. Well, I do have a choice whether to let my mind keep on doing its tricks, or telling it to stop.
I wrote on my status “having electricity on and off, as if a child is playing with the grid switch”. I thought of my mind as that child playing tricks with me; lights off when it makes me think of and cling to my past or when it makes my imagination wander into and become anxious of the distant future. Lights on when I am absorbed in the moment, experiencing with all my senses everything around me. Well, I do have a choice whether to let my mind keep on doing its tricks, or telling it to stop.
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I like so much how you think, Mila. How you turn things around to the mind. Thank you for your consciousness and light in the world. (even when the lights go off.) smiling….love, Kathy
yes…kids will click you on and off in a heartbeat…..that's why we should remain like them.
Wonderful insight Mila! We control our own inner light switch :)
First of all may I say that this little boy has the most micheivious little look on his face ever - it made me laugh! Here is to keeping our lights on and enjoying that moment!
Well Mila, you just managed to find the absolutely cutest photograph of the kid I want to be! The one who flicks the switch just for the kick of it and has little expectations of what is going to happen next and can just move on to explore some other thing right after!
But I guess that kid - or her absence - would be in my mind too, huh…
Thanks love, Sherri
Oh, thank you dear friends for lighting my space while I was offline.
Kathy, I love to ¡dılɟ puıɯ, you bet! Yeh, even in the darkness! Smiling back at ya!
I like that, Tom, kids can click you on and off in a heartbeat! Milind does that!
Helen, yes we're in control of our inner light switch, a blessing indeed!
Great to have you here, Jami and let's keep our lights on and don't worry when it gets off sometimes. That kid, though looking quite mischievous, is adorable!
Sherri, to be a kid flicking the switch just for the kick of it! Love to be one, too!
Hugs everyone!