7) ATTENTION TO DETAIL


What happened:

I found myself paying extremely close attention to every component particle of the parachute while it's function was being explained to me during the skydiving intensive. When my time came to skydive, I was again minutely fascinated by every button, every buckle and other details of my harness and skydiving gear.

Abstract:

Paying close attention to detail goeswith life working (as Alan Watts may have said).

Observation:

      I became aware of minute details of my equipment during the skydiving intensive - threads, specks, patterns in the weaving of the reserve parachute pack, and similarly fine details of the harness and skydiving gear when I came to put them on. So pointed did my attention become that a focus, which allowed me to notice everyone and everything all around me in intimate detail, became spontaneously enlivened. It was both pleasing and refreshing, a perceptual opening, a melting away of mists from my field of vision.

Conclusions:

If I paid as much attention to detail in my daily life as I paid to my parachute while preparing for skydiving, my life would work infinitely better. From now on, I will live as if my life depends on it.