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HOW TO RE-VIEW YOUR WORLD
Sometimes, stopping to smell the roses can be thorny. But sometimes, it’s a good way to re-start, re-boot, refresh the day.
You might even consider getting up close and allowing the roses to enjoy you.
Consider these notions about gaining control of your world on your own terms:
Turn down the sound on the radio and watch it closely for
30 minutes.
Adjust the television image and watch a color film in
black and white.
Turn the sound down and just watch television.
Then, keeping the sound off, read the closed captions.
At the movie theatre, use a hand mirror to view the audience behind you, ignoring the film entirely.
Pop a blank CD into a player and listen to the quiet for 70 minutes.
Carry snapshots of your parents and grandparents and brag about them every chance you get.
Have someone read you a bedtime story.
See what happens when you go a full day without television, ipad, texting, facebooking, tweeting, emailing, phonetalking, gameplaying…see what it’s like to avoid setting an alarm or looking at a clock or using a timer or switching on the car radio.
Try watching a turned-off TV screen by candlelight for 20 minutes.
Read only the last line of each newspaper article today.
Read a short story backwards, from end to beginning.
With eyes closed, clutch a very old book to your chest for an hour and imagine what is happening inside that volume.
Turn the world upside-down for a day and tell me what that was like
© Jim Reed 2011 A.D.