Heather Harvilesky, writing on “enough,” suggests this as a starting point: “You will recognize that you are not headed for some imaginary finish line, some state of ‘best’ness’ that will finally bring you peace.” I know something of the “illusory finish line,” having set up many, crossed some number less, and still being on the journey to cross others. I have imagined that completion, happiness, contentedness can only occur “then” — only when I cross that finish line as a result of some act, accomplishment or occurrence.
The “finish line,” it turns out, is just a product of my own imagination, or that of someone else, and the reality is that no sooner than I cross one finish line (if not before) another appears. The image of a hamster running inside a wheel comes to mind.
All of which points to the thought that Havrilesky may have this right. Maybe, it occurs to me, just maybe, as is true in many races, the starting line and finish line are the same – they are both present in the spot we call “now.”
It occurs to me... 