A little reminder...

By Vichara

I read this reminder this morning as I began to “sit” – “This breath is one breath less…so don’t squander!”. When our days are measured out in commuter times, meeting times, the time to complete a task, lunch time, dinner time and bed time, we are truly conscious of the minutes that make up these segments. What we sometimes refrain from recognizing (even though it happens as a reflex of the human anatomy) is our breath, moving in and out bringing in needed oxygen and life force to our bodies. These breaths, even though we will lose sight of it, are numbered just like the other things we keep time of. You can guess where I am going with this, yes? Drawing attention to our breath at given times during the day will remind us of how delicate this life is and use this recognition to bring more compassion to yourself and to others.

whinge • \WINJ\ • verb
: to complain fretfully : whine
Example Sentence:
She urged her fellow workers to stop whinging about how they were victims of "the system" and to do something to change that system.
Did you know?
"Whinge" isn't just a spelling variant of "whine." "Whinge" and "whine" are actually entirely different words with separate histories. "Whine" traces to an Old English verb, "hwinan," which means "to make a humming or whirring sound." When "hwinan" became "whinen" in Middle English, it meant "to wail distressfully"; "whine" didn't acquire its "complain" sense until the 16th century. "Whinge," on the other hand, comes from a different Old English verb, "hwinsian," which means "to wail or moan discontentedly." "Whinge" retains that original sense today, though nowadays it puts less emphasis on the sound of the complaining and more on the discontentment behind the complaint.