What's in a name?

According to my Apple dictionary, admittedly not a definitive source, a ‘consideration’ is a thought, reflection, meditation, concern, rumination etc. I would like this blog to do those things. I’m hoping I can keep the posts positive because, as someone once reminded me, it is important to practise the habits of mind that you value and want to foster. For me those are: positivity, curiosity, openness and self-reflection (hence, a blog is a good forum).


Also, I’m calling them 'small' because I would like to try to get into the habit of blogging briefly but often. That way I can reflect on everyday occurrences and make this form of writing and thinking a habit, hopefully.


Sunday, 3 February 2013

Cosmological cliché

(This was drafted on Jan. 28th, but I was too sick to post it until now.)

I've been sick for the last few days: vertigo to the point where I can hardly move, nausea and ear ringing. At one stage when I was bemoaning the unfairness of it all, I started thinking that maybe it happened on a sunny, long weekend for a reason. Maybe I got sick to remind me of something: perhaps not to take a healthy body for granted; or that I can't always be a self-sufficient, independent woman just because I want to be; that it's nice to be looked after by your husband sometimes; or maybe even to remind my husband it feels good to be needed; or to show him what it's like to entertain himself for a weekend. Then it occurred to me that it's a bit far fetched for the huge, swirly cosmological consciousness (or coincidence) to reach down and anoint my puny human ear with infinitesimal microbes for some grander purpose. Probably life's just unfair, ear infections suck and 'it happens for a reason' is something we puny humans tell ourselves to feel better about it all.
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