Last two-three days were rather hectic. A whirlwind of news and developments, both in business and personal life, hit my relatively stable routine, and threw me a bit off course. We’re still in a de-facto lockdown, otherwise some of these news would have seen me flying in another country, to make sure I can assess the situation there. I am still closely observing things from a distance, and trying to get a grip from here. Some days are better than other, obviously.

As the whirlwind is starting to settle down, I’m slowly getting back into my carefully crafted routine. And by “carefully crafted” I mean carefully crafted, like really, following it and enforcing it every day. I am sticking to my personal rituals, doing my daily stroll to the end of the world, and this morning I got back to my guitar practice. To be honest, I didn’t interrupt it completely, even in the midst of the disconcerting news, but I barely did it, just a few minutes in the evening, so I can cross it off from my list. On a normal day, I practice three times, for an average of one and a half hour.

Today, I practiced again in the morning, after two days of pause. It was just two days, but I could really observe a difference. Not necessarily in the skill (I don’t even have that much of it, to be honest, still a rookie beginner), but in the way I perceived it. Some chord changes were a bit more clear, playing in constant rhythm was feeling more wholesome and my entire practice had a strange feeling of freshness, and yet comfortable familiarity.

And at that moment I realized what I was feeling was the “picking it up from where you left” situation. I hope you have good, reliable friends in your life, because that’s the easiest way to explain this. So, if you have good, reliable friends, you know that you can meet in two days, or in two years, and it won’t make any difference. No matter how much time has passed, you will still be able to pick it up from where you left.

Every time we are truly in sync with someone, or with something, we’re creating an interruptible connection. If the sync is deep, profound and fulfilling, it will still float inside, unchanged, ready to surface again when we’re touching the same ground again. Every time we’re doing something that has a profound effect on us, like the guitar practice has on me, we’re immersing so deeply, that no other distraction will parasite our attention.

And it’s this attention, this focus, this identification with the task at hand, that will help that something gain some gravity, some life, some deep meaning, it will help it survive in our internal world for years.

It’s this immersion that will slowly create a pleasant feeling of familiarity that will always make reconnection so simple and natural, with no friction whatsoever, just a space opening for more joy and harmony.

And that was the post for today, time for my pre-lunch guitar practice now.