Comments on: being and non-being

By: mis_nomer

mis_nomer — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 08:00:59 +0000

“Now, it takes both kinds of running to create a balanced training program … and, I suspect, it takes both kinds of living (being and non-being) to create a balanced life”

Wow. What a post. Thank you. Your quote of Woolf’s description of non-being as nondescript cotton wool is amazingly apt.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:43:33 +0000

J — ditto, that was lovely to read;

I think running sometimes gives you those wonderful being moments, and the proof is in the way the memory sticks. I remember the feeling with 300m to go when I knew I would FINALLY break the 5-minute mile (years ago); and oddly some runs with running buddies, just two of us skimming over hills, are equally vivid. Running with someone can be, in a way, a very intimate experience. Some of those memories, little epiphanies really, are as clear as my first kiss (also many years ago . . . sigh). Good literature gives you those ah-ha moments that stick; for some reason I remember reading Homer and suddenly realizing the enormous humanity of these stories, even four thousand years away from my time.

Y’know Joan, you have a book or four in you. I hope you’re working on something (in other words, I’d hate to think you waste all your efforts on old flat-footed readers like me :>) ). — Eric

By: Joan

Joan — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:22:01 +0000

Gosh, Doug, I sure needed to read your comment today, a day filled with too many non-being hours. To peek at my comments … with hopes of a connection … and find you, friend, ended my day on a being note.

Namaste.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:44:04 +0000

I have lurked for quite some time without ever commenting on your posts. But, tonight I must say that this is just a joy to read.