Paying close attention to detail goeswith life working (as
Alan Watts
may have said).
I became aware of minute details of my equipment while packing my own
parachute during a skydiving intensive - threads, specks, patterns in
the weaving of the reserve parachute pack, and similarly fine details
of the harness and skydiving gear when I came to put them on.
So pointed did my attention become that a focus, which allowed me to
notice everyone and everything all around me in intimate detail, became
spontaneously enlivened. It was both pleasing and refreshing, a
perceptual opening, a melting away of mists from my field of vision.
If I paid as much attention to detail in my daily life as I paid while
packing my own parachute while preparing for skydiving, my life would
work infinitely better.
From now on, I will live as if my life depends on it.
This essay,
Packing My Own Parachute,
recreates
Observation 7: Attention To Detail
of my thesis,
BREAKTHROUGH SKYDIVING,
which is available at