Saturday, November 16, 2013

this word in my dictionary III

ca-pac-i-ty: noun;    the maximum amount that something can contain.

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Every public building has a known maximum capacity for it's occupants at any given point in time.

But do you know the capacity for your own inner private space?

Do you know when you've had enough, when you're about to burst?

Do you know where the exit is and what's in the way of it?

The final maximum occupancy ordered by the fire marshall will include all these types of considerations, making sure there is never too many people or obstacles in the room that getting out of the space in an emergency would prove impossible.  

But that's only known because somehow, somewhere at some point in time

someone couldn't get out.

It was a learned lesson. The space had to test itself to determine what it's capacity was.

By now you know one of my favorite intellectuals of all time is Eckhart Tolle.
On this matter, he says we have the most capacity for growth through the empty space that we allow to be.

Empty space has the capacity to be filled, displaced or ignored.

Less stuff in the space makes for more capacity inside.

Less is more.

You can learn your limits only through trial and error.

Someone once asked me,
"How do you exit discomfort?"

Frustration can come out of my seams
when the glue called 'defense mechanism' fails to do its job.

Time to review the maximum capacity limits within,
especially as the EXIT sign of 2013 is right around the corner.

~L~