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.