what to do...

i just don't know what to do with myself...........

.............like a summer rose needs the sun and rain

I need your sweet love to beat love away...

What do you do when you don't know what to do, with your life  actually...

My friend Αιμιλία in her "TRUTH & REVERIE" doesn't know what to do in Athens, 

what to do somewhere else, what to do, what to do...

It's quite funny that she gets that, cause if you are an Αιμιλία, ie an Emily, your name quite clearly denotes your life!

emily    ~  PRONOUNCED : Em-i-lee

    

     αιμιλία   ~  PRONOUNCED : Em-i-lee-ah

        

The meaning of this name is  in·dus·tri·ous   -   a.k.a. skillful.

Skills... what a nice thing to have. 

Do we learn a skill, or a skill chooses us? Probably the second, as everything in our life does, even though most of us go by the "choose your life" moto... I think not. I think we are pre-determined from the day we are born, as to what we will like, what we will do, how we'l react to this, etc. 

No matter what our skill is though, the only think we all  have in common, 

is our obligation to our gift-giver to use it.

Our times are challenging, as all time have been & will be. 

The few who are skillful enough to comprehend the meaning of this, are the ones who have to get the job done... Live to be marry, of course. But not just that, cause this is quite easy actually for the emilies. 

Live to Do..... 

So, to give my advice to emily's seek for suggestions :

1. Become an Αιμιλία. Live in Athens and become an Athenian, not a passer-by. You don't have to live to a place forever to do that, even a few days will do. Get an Athenian best friend. No, it's not difficult is you really want to gift yourself to a previously-stranger-and-now-best-friend person. 

2. Care for Athens. What can you offer to a city that has so much to learn from you? So so so many Athenians are desperate for some freshly-minded guidance in all of the skills you have; smiling, eating, caring, and the all so many others i don't know...

3. Learn from Athens. There is an underlying wisdom of centuries around this city. Zillions of people live in it & never know it but it's there. There is an aura of wisdom and happiness that is yours to take. Is it in the people? Is it in the food? Is it in the public transport that you hate? Is it laying near you in Irodeion Theater while watching a play that has probably been played there 19 centuries ago? Find out, it's too easy to skip  !

TO CONCLUDE :  You got to this ancient city for a reason, and this is far beyond the fact that you paid a visit to a susan once... 

Jack White sings "I don't know what to do with myself" in this post. He's from Detroit (ding, ding, ding!) and he struggles with the same question over there too, so your answer is probably location-free...

When you don't know what to do with yourself , you usually have to take a STEP BACK from yourself. You've spent too much time with her  and it's time for some fresh input !

To discover your purpose here, empty your mind of all the (maybe false) purposes you've thought you had here, including the idea that you may have no purpose here at all! 

It's breathtaking inspiring to think of all the things you could be doing here!

Now, 

if all things fail & you find yourself doing nothing, here are a few suggestions to do just that:

1. Blink wildly and then close your eyes really tight for an interesting light show

2. See how long you can hold a note

3. Try to not think about penguins

4. Use your secret mind power

5. Pretend you're a robot

6. Scratch yourself

7. Rate passers by

8. Repeat the same word over and over until it loses its meaning

9. Pinch yourself

10. Try to swallow your tongue

11. Pretend to be a car

12. Make Star Trek door noises

13. Look at something for awhile, shut eyes, study after image

14. Get yourself as nauseated as possible

15. Invent a weird twitch

16. Make a low buzzing noise

(wow...... I can't wait to find myself be doing nothing...)