Weird little morning insights

[helen99]

I often perceive mundane objects in terms of numbers and generic types of objects rather than the actual items. For example, suppose I leave the house carrying an item of the specific type Purse but generic type Bag. Then I go to Borders and buy a book and bring it back with me -- in a bag. Now I have two items of generic type Bag. When I get home, unless I pay attention to the 3-D surroundings, I may pick up generic type Bag #1 but leave generic type Bag #2 in the car, because my mind has fulfilled its requirement of "you left with one generic type Bag and so you must now collect at a minimum one generic type Bag before you go inside." I call this "living in bookmarks". When I detect it, it's time to do a mental uncluttering. The uncluttering process consists of paying attention to each thing as though I have never seen it before. I wonder what I'll see today...

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[helen99.livejournal.com]

Yes, but that would require a deeper level of attention than the resting place of most bookmarks. Speaking of attention, I almost got in a 3-car accident because I wasn't paying attention about 20 minutes ago. The light was red and I was elsewhere, so to speak. By the time I saw the red light, I was at the intersection. It's nice to know my reflexes are intact, because the next thing I knew, I came to a dead stop and turned the car toward the right from the left lane to avoid hitting the car and the truck entering the intersection from the left. After much honkage and embarassment, I was able to back the car into some semblance of stopped normalcy at the intersection. So much for paying more attention today.