I have read a lot about archery. The spiritual and mental and emotional and psychological benefits of it were enormous according to what I have studied. So I went there with a giant expectation. That I would feel some special spiritual state.
So I got there, the coaches gave us the safety orientation. Archery components. And then…
We shot some arrows.
When I gripped the bow for the first time and it was the first time I grabbed a bow. I felt like someone else. Some new identity. I don’t know what identity it was but I felt different.
Other than that no fireworks were there. I felt normal. I shot an arrow after an other for like half an hour and went back home.
And the first lesson I realized in hindsight. That this is just life. No fireworks. And that is stable. Seeking excitement and seeking special states comes with turbulence. High and low. Being normal in life and ordinary I reasoned , is what accomplishes things that people call extraordinary that puzzle you because you are never not ordinary. You are just you. No glamor. No whizzles.
KoorFaz 