Someone once told me that I should live my life sort of like a cat waiting by a mouse hole. The cat is alert, sensitive to his surroundings, ready for anything, observant, thoroughly prepared. Something thrilling could happen at any moment, and the cat doesn’t want to miss it. He is thoroughly primed and geared up for whatever comes along. Truly, that wouldn’t be a bad way to live. In each moment today, any of a zillion events could occur, and I want to be ready to fully appreciate them. Like the mouse poking its head out of the hole, a fascinating occurrence is ready to happen each moment, and if I’m not totally vigilant, I’ll miss it. What this implies, interestingly, is that I can’t allow myself to be absorbed in my own thinking, because then I will definitely miss the mouse. While I’m lost in the endless forest of my thoughts, contemplations, beliefs, worries, and hopes, perhaps hundreds of astonishing events could occur today without my awareness. To stay with the analogy, countless choice, tasty mice could be coming and going as I robotically pass the time in pointless thinking.
May I be a fully awake and watchful cat today.
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