Date:
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Risk:
Being aware of and correcting my
posture for one day
Purpose
of Risk: To increase my overall
awareness of posture and to see how difficult it is to maintain fabulous posture all day
Execution:
I decided to start this risk at about
11:30am this morning while I was on the subway coming up to York. At first I
didn’t find it difficult at all, but while I was on the bus I found that it was
extremely taxing for me to keep my head on straight, literally! I realize
that I often tilt my head to one side, and keeping myself from doing that has
proven difficult. Then around 5pm, while I was talking to my roommate about
this project, I realized that I had totally forgotten about my risk of the day.
I straightened my posture and continue to as I write this.
Analysis:
My biggest bodily realization is that
I tilt my head quite a bit, the extent of which I wasn’t fully aware. But I’m
also realizing how easily posture slips my mind. Even as I’m writing about
posture, I start to slouch, tense my shoulders and tilt my head to one side. Also,
one of the reasons I think I keep forgetting about it is that on some level I
feel like it’s not as ‘worthy’ of a risk to be taking and paying attention to
as another might be. I keep thinking that if my risk was more straightforward,
and demanded a huge burst of energy all at once, it would be a ‘better’ risk
than a risk of awareness. I think I’m putting risks that require outward
bravado, rather than inward awareness on a higher pedestal. Is it that I care
more about showing the world that I have courage rather than showing myself
personally? Or do I just prefer the excitement of doing something big quickly
rather than doing something small consistently?
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