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I think op is wishing for an intense memory in which she experiences the emotions felt in the moment. Easy enough for emotionally charged events but harder when the experience was one of mild disappointment over a meal that didn’t have many expectations in the first place
I'm a bit confused. First you're talking about time travel to experience a certain moment-- I'm sure we all have those; for example, I'd love to go back and get tickets to the Ed Sullivan show on February 9, 1964-- but then you talk about having a bad experience at a restaurant and how you didn't say out loud at the time that you didn't like it.
Are you saying that if you had the chance to time travel, the thing you would choose to do is go back to a single date in the recent past and choose to go to a different restaurant?? That's the biggest regret of your life??
I think this comes under the heading of "Life was easier when restaurants posted their menus on their windows. I long for that idyllic time in my life." Or something like that.
Ahhhhh...OH-kay...so what I really 'want' to call it...is an 'inability' to wrap YOUR mind around the fact that there are 'still' people out here in the world, who 'still' eat meat...
Well, like everyone else, I'm not sure what you're asking for. Are you saying you'd like to go back in time, and somehow make it more exciting?
Like, using your example, you wish you could go back in time, and make the whole experience more fun or exciting? Or did you wish you could go back and have a different attitude about it, like maybe being more "let's just roll with it" instead of disappointment?
I think I must have written the post and not finished and just posted it . . . I am sorry. It absolutely makes no sense.
What I was wanting to convey is that at the time, we were tired, rushed, the food wasn't great, etc., but we were in NYC - and I feel like I was mostly "unconscious" so I wasn't able to appreciate everything.
I think I was wanting the ability to go back in time to be really saturated in an experience - to be able to feel it.
I wish I could delete this entire thread because it basically makes little sense and I am not 100% sure what I was trying to convey.
I think I must have written the post and not finished and just posted it . . . I am sorry. It absolutely makes no sense.
What I was wanting to convey is that at the time, we were tired, rushed, the food wasn't great, etc., but we were in NYC - and I feel like I was mostly "unconscious" so I wasn't able to appreciate everything.
I think I was wanting the ability to go back in time to be really saturated in an experience - to be able to feel it.
As a retired mental health professional, it's the opposite of the ever-popular mindfulness that everyone seems to have been faddishly talking about for the past decade as the apparent cure for everything. I suppose you could call it heedlessness, or maybe forgetfulness. The skill used in mindfulness is called attending: simply put, it's paying attention to what's going on around you.
As an example: if there's a fan or appliance running in your environment, most of the time you don't attend to the sound it's making because it's irrelevant. Same with other sensory input. If something else is going on in our heads, or we're focused on a task, we ignore sensory input that's not relevant to whatever we're focusing on and to our survival. Mindfulness is simply being in the moment, paying attention to everything you'd otherwise be filtering out. If we didn't constantly filter out irrelevant data, we'd be overwhelmed by our environments.
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I wish I could delete this entire thread because it basically makes little sense and I am not 100% sure what I was trying to convey.
Judging from the other responses, it's a bit late for that.
LOL...well, OP, that explains things. Sounds like you were tired maybe, when you wrote that post. We all do silly stuff. No harm, no foul. But it's funny how we all tried to understand anyway. :-)
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