Flow

Sometimes I wish I could stop thinking. I’m pretty good at it and I’ve got lots of room in which to do it. My hat size is at least 7 ¾. I say “at least” because I haven’t bought a fitted hat in a while, so I’m not sure if my already giant noggin has grown or not. All I know is the last hat I bought was that size and it was a little tight. It gave me a headache when I wore it. Anyway, the reason I bring all this stuff up about my head is that I think God either gave me some extra processing room knowing that I would think more than anything else, or my head has just expanded because of overuse. It doesn’t really matter. All I know is that I wish I could shut the overworking machine off at certain times.

I was reading this book the other day that said that true happiness comes not from having a lot of pleasure in your life, but by doing things that are challenging, yet rewarding to you. The book also said that when you are doing something like this that is gratifying and not just pleasurable, you don’t even have any positive emotion. You’re just doing and you’re not aware of anything going on in your mind like emotion. You’re not meta-analyzing the situation to figure out how you feel at that moment. You’re just living in the moment. The book called this concept flow. I like that idea. I think that’s what living by faith is like. If you’re doing exactly what you’ve been gifted to do, what God has called you to do, and you just put yourself out there and do it, you stop thinking, analyzing, and hesitating and just do.