I'm working on a pause button for my life. Sometimes I just want a way to stop everything while I catch my breath, catch up to the action and figure out what's going on in the plot of my life. I think this would be a very handy little device. I imagine I'm not the only one who wants one.
Maybe it'll be a remote with rewind for the times you want to go back and change what happened, or just review it when there's a dispute over who said what. And fast forward for when you want to skip over the scary or sad stuff and get to the good part when it all turns out well in the end. Ooh, and slow-motion so you can savor the best parts. I think some captioning would be useful too for those times miscommunications pile up until you feel like the person you're talking with is speaking a different language.
But as much as I sometimes wish for all those features I think life is much more interesting without them. When I look back at all I've learned from those scary and sad times, from the miscommunications, from rushing through the good times, I wouldn't want to change them.
However I do need to get back to my meditation practice as that is as close as I'll ever get to a pause button for my life.
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