I told him I notice how I'm sometimes averse to making distinctions. I
notice how I would rather have the story. I notice how when I get
distinction, I'm in a space of no problems. I notice how I have to keep
on creating and creating and creating distinctions again and again and
again if I want them to endure. By themselves they seem to have no
longevity. Am I missing something?
Werner's
response jolted me back to realizing something I already knew yet
didn't want to face full on.
Transformation
isn't easy. If it were, the whole world would be
transformed
by now. What I was looking for was a way for my work
transforming
my life to end. I wanted to get to a place where
transformation
was permanently established after which no more work was
required. I wanted to get it written in stone. I wanted to
get it and keep it
forever.
He said "Distinctions have a short half-life, and need to be recreated
from time to time.".
His response more than interested me, more than got my attention. It
woke me up. I didn't hear what he said as if he was
coaching me or as if he was advising me. Rather, I heard
what he said as if he was confirming what was already true for me in
my experience - to which I was
adding on
"Am I missing something?".
I love the way he made his point referencing nuclear
physics
and radioactive isotopes. The time taken for its radioactivity to drop
by half is the half-life of an isotope. I love the way he
related distinctions to isotopes saying
distinctions also have a half-life ie their power to bring forth
creativity and freshness drops off over time, hence their need to be
recreated from time to time.
But I've always known that about him: he's not only the
transformer
- he's also a
physicist.
