All the time. That's why I make a point of taking breaks occasionally.
Or did you mean something more general by "right now"? If I expand that to this time in my life as a whole, I'd be refining my ideas about what I want to do as a career, taking on projects that stretch my abilities, generally aiming for more nuance and a sense of the long term in my reactions and behavior, spending time focused on people I love, taking better care of myself, being more responsible (not just in the sense of meeting my commitments, but in the sense of truly feeling responsibility, in an emotional and physical way that I'm not sure I can verbally articulate), getting out of my head, getting into my body, getting my house in order both literally and metaphorically. All of those things have built-in moments of bliss--which I think I define as something like "ecstatic contentment"--and all point the way to a future where there is more bliss in my life, and I'm doing all of them as much as I can and then pushing myself to do them a bit more.
As part of "taking better care of myself", I make sure I get some downtime. *) Otherwise it's too easy to spend so much time and attention on chasing goals that I don't appreciate the ones I've already caught.
EDIT: Oh, and I'd be feeding the good things already in my life to keep them healthy. That's very important.
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Date: 2008-12-08 06:10 am (UTC)Or did you mean something more general by "right now"? If I expand that to this time in my life as a whole, I'd be refining my ideas about what I want to do as a career, taking on projects that stretch my abilities, generally aiming for more nuance and a sense of the long term in my reactions and behavior, spending time focused on people I love, taking better care of myself, being more responsible (not just in the sense of meeting my commitments, but in the sense of truly feeling responsibility, in an emotional and physical way that I'm not sure I can verbally articulate), getting out of my head, getting into my body, getting my house in order both literally and metaphorically. All of those things have built-in moments of bliss--which I think I define as something like "ecstatic contentment"--and all point the way to a future where there is more bliss in my life, and I'm doing all of them as much as I can and then pushing myself to do them a bit more.
As part of "taking better care of myself", I make sure I get some downtime. *) Otherwise it's too easy to spend so much time and attention on chasing goals that I don't appreciate the ones I've already caught.
EDIT: Oh, and I'd be feeding the good things already in my life to keep them healthy. That's very important.