I Don't Feel Like It, Part 2

I bought some peaches this week. Like many fruits, peaches are usually not ripe when you buy them, then they are ripe for a limited amount of time, and then they are not good anymore. I, personally, am pretty picky about my fruit ripeness, so my ideal window of opportunity can sometimes be small. It’s possible that “I don’t feel like” eating the peach when it is ripe.  What occurred to me today when I was eating the last perfect peach is that when I eat that perfect peach at the right time, I am not going to have a bad experience—it is delicious. If I don’t eat it then, I miss the chance forever (either I won’t eat it at all or I eat it and it isn’t very good). Now, nevermind being wasteful and the starving children in Africa—I bought the peach because I like peaches, so who is it that doesn’t feel like eating it? By having “my” ideas about the right time for things, I end up not being in sync with life’s right time for things. This little separate self thinks it’s got a better idea than life. Yoga says this is the main cause of suffering—avidya (ignorance). When I know am part of life and I am in the flow with life, then I don’t need to worry about when I do or don’t feel like doing something, I just do what life shows me to do.