It's not something that I routinely ruminate about, but my "lost ability" caused me considerable regret at the high-energy wedding reception.
"Night is hard -- the quietness and the ruminating about it," he said.
I'd been ruminating about it for decades, wondering if it would ever pop into my head.
"Night is hard — the quietness, and the ruminating about it," he said inside his home, on a sleepy cul-de-sac ringed by mountains.
Evolution has hard-wired a general fear response into our brains, rather than a fear of specific things — you never know what you might encounter, and you don't want to sit there ruminating about it while you become lunch.
Worse, they had undermined Sparta's chance of getting into the next round of the Champions League, as one of the top two teams in the group.The defeat hurt; Sparta players and the Czech press were still ruminating about it a week later, when, on a crisp autumn night, Sparta managed a 3-2 victoverover Shakhtar Donetsk.
He ruminated about it, sipping his coffee, making grocery lists [End Page 136] from the specials in the Thursday paper.
Don't waste energy ruminating about it, and don't feel bad you feel bad about it.
It's vaguely about change, especially, at the end, about the irony of being faced with the real possibility for change after you've been abstractly ruminating about it all night--but it's phrased as an inquiry and not an answer, which is basically what hipster culture is about.
Mindfulness may be characterized as paying attention to the moment-to-moment unfolding of internal experience such as physical sensation, emotion, craving, agitation, etc; while maintaining a mental posture of acceptance toward each experience as a passing phenomenon without acting on it, judging it, ruminating about it, or trying to fix it [ 1- 3].
