Sunday
12Jul2009
The Small Things
Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 02:51PM
Spending a lot of time at home for whatever reason can change your mindset quite a bit in a short space of time. Whether through illness or choice, staying at home doesn't need to be boring or depressing. It's easy to find things to enjoy at home. Wonderful services like Spotify can open up a whole new world of music, and if you've got access to iPlayer or internet radio you've got more entertainment than you can shake a stick at at your fingertips. I've recently discovered The Jazz House on Radio Scotland with Stephen Duffy. This led to a whole new wolrd of music for me, and although I've not managed to see many of them yet, I'm compiling a great big list of performers who I'm interested in checking out. The Anatomy of a Solo feature is improving my jazz theory no end on a weekly basis without the aid of textbooks. When I get those jazz festival programmes through the door I am starting to know what I'm looking at and what to expect, which is wonderful, now, if I could only afford it!
Enforced time at home, once you've got used to it, is really quite liberating, as you can do a million things you've never had time to do before, whether that's writing that novel, reading all those books that have been building up, really listening, listening to music, or researching your family tree. And when you venture out into the world again it's a richer and more fascinating world than it ever was before. A walk round the park costs nothing but if you're lucky and you time it right you never know what you might discover. This probably all sounds rather obvious but most of us waste or time pottering and watching TV when we're stuck at home. Not that there's anything wrong with that in itself, but when you realise there's more to life, more to yourself than that passive old couch potato mentality, everything changes.
This might be a philosophical point worth making or maybe I'm just waffling and being self indulgent. Enjoy the small things, the big stuff can wait. Be easily pleased. That's all.
Enforced time at home, once you've got used to it, is really quite liberating, as you can do a million things you've never had time to do before, whether that's writing that novel, reading all those books that have been building up, really listening, listening to music, or researching your family tree. And when you venture out into the world again it's a richer and more fascinating world than it ever was before. A walk round the park costs nothing but if you're lucky and you time it right you never know what you might discover. This probably all sounds rather obvious but most of us waste or time pottering and watching TV when we're stuck at home. Not that there's anything wrong with that in itself, but when you realise there's more to life, more to yourself than that passive old couch potato mentality, everything changes.
This might be a philosophical point worth making or maybe I'm just waffling and being self indulgent. Enjoy the small things, the big stuff can wait. Be easily pleased. That's all.
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