Ourselves

What is it which drives us out of bed in the morning other than our commitment to work.
Is there an underlying thing that we are missing out on, something we will miss if we don't make an effort to go out and look.
There was always when young the need to put yourself about and visit the social scene, perhaps to line up a date or visit a football game to enjoy the close contact with fans and imbibe their enthusiasm.
Staying in was an anathema, something was happening elsewhere and you were missing out by not being there.
I have friends who are continually going out or if not, are entertaining people in their home and wouldn't for a moment give thought to spending time doing nothing.
I was listening to Terry Waite yesterday talking about being alone and in silence, of how that state of being, gave him the composure to find himself. Terry Waite to those of you who don't know spent over 4 years as prisoner in Lebanon, three and a half in solitary confinement. Imagine that amount of time being totally alone with only your own mind for company.
His message is that you are an individual and as such you have the composition, within your own mind to construct your own world and live satisfactorily within it.
The need to be spurred on by events around you perhaps indicates how little at home you are within yourself and as such we are denying ourselves the company of the best friend we shall ever have - ourselves.