Paying close attention to detail goeswith life working (as
Alan Watts
may have said).
I became aware of minute details of my equipment while packing my own
parachute during a
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.
If I paid as much attention to detail in my daily life as I paid while
packing my own parachute while preparing for
skydiving,
my life would work infinitely better.
From now on, I will live as if my life depends on it.