Koan #6...

By Vichara

Whatta know, whatta say it’s Koan Mon-day! “The wise don’t strive to arrive” We all remember or have heard kids on a road trip repeativly asking thie parents “are we there yet?, are we there yet?, when are we going to get there?” All said with this aching tone that grates the nerves of the person behind the wheel. For many of us we are now both the “kid” with the repetitious requests and the person behind the wheel “driving” this life. We see what others may posess or achieved and we try to get the same, rushing forward at a frenetic pace. What we tend to lose sight of is…the journey that we are on. While obsessing about getting “there” you will miss out on “here” and all that is around “now”. You may never get what the other person has but what you do have that is completely yours, is the “your” journey with all the sights along the way. Don’t miss out on any of them.

daymare • \DAY-mair\ • noun
: a nightmarish fantasy experienced while awake

Example Sentence:
Through therapy, the patient has begun to experience some relief from the daymares she's been having since the traumatic event.

Did you know?
Long ago, the word "nightmare" designated an evil spirit that made its victims feel like they were suffocating in their sleep (prompting physician-botanist William Turner to introduce "a good remedy agaynst the stranglyng of the nyght mare" in 1562). By the early 1700s, the Age of Reason had arrived, nightmares were bad dreams, and "daymare" was a logically analogous choice when English speakers sought a word for a frightening and uncontrollable fantasy, a run-away daydream. And since the 1800s, when Charles Dickens wrote "a monstrous load that I was obliged to bear, a daymare that there was no possibility of breaking in, a weight that brooded on my wits" in David Copperfield, we’ve been using "daymare" figuratively. For example, today we might refer to "a logistical daymare."