Watershed: Three Questions and Mindfulness
There's a line in the Indigo Girls song Watershed that goes, Every five years or so I look back on my life, and I have a good laugh . Absolutely worth pausing to enjoy: https://youtu.be/mut_T0GcehI The line reminds me of a therapy session I had a little less than a decade ago. I'm a firm believer in therapy. Every few years or so I look at my life, and decide that a little more therapy wouldn’t hurt. Anyway, after hearing me narrate my stories and give account of my life as I understood it, the therapist paused and suggested, Well, you might ask yourself two questions: 1. what do you want? and 2. what do you need? Since then I've come to call these the two existential questions. Because when I come to crossroads in my life—when I take an assessment of it—I come back to these questions. Every time—what do I want, and what do I need. Considering them helps me clear away the clutter. And often, I find that clearing away the clutter, all the superfluous options, the