I was going to go to the bike store today and pick up all the gear that
I need for the Bridge Pedal next weekend. Instead what I ended up doing
was finding nirvana.

Nirvana, as defined by Merriam-Webster online, is “a place or state of
oblivion to care, pain, or external reality”. Some of you might be
asking yourselves, “How did he do this?” Truth be told, I’m not really
sure how I achieved it, but I can theorize it.

First thing is first, I woke up at ~12 pm. Normally, I would be kicking
myself for waking up so late as I usually try to get up at around 9 am
on weekends. Today, I didn’t care. I was alright with the fact that I
woke up at noon.

For the rest of the day (which was a perfect weather day – that
probably attributed to my state) I did much of nothing. On any other
Sunday, my mind would be flooded all sorts of thoughts; things that I
need to get accomplished or things that I should be doing. I’ll give you some examples: usually I’d be worried that I spent too much time being a hermit and that I should be out there
having some sort of human contact or that I should be out there
enjoying the wonderful weather doing what people normally do when the
weather is great. My mind would be so caught up with what I thought I should be doing (or maybe it’s what I think the world thinks that I should being doing) that I couldn’t relax.

Somehow, I changed that mode of thinking and decided that it was ok
that I didn’t talk to any humans today, that I only left my apartment
once, or that I spent most of the day just reading my new book Freakonomics.

About halfway through the day, I found that I was really relaxed,
more so than I can remember being. I stopped caring about the external
reality and just focused on the internal reality. Reminds me of a line
from a Babylon 5 episode. I can’t remember exactly how it goes,
but it’s something like this; “Everything out there distracts us from
everything in here.”