There is no pot of gold at the end of this rainbow. OK, or any rainbow. What you get is the rainbow itself, all the colors of light on brilliant display.
What recent experience have you cherished just for itself, and not for any possible use it could bring you?
This is a hard one. I usually feel like I need to justify the time I spend on activities, even when no one else polices them. Doing things purely for enjoyment only began to be allowed when they were framed as “taking care of myself” which in turn had to be justified. Even so, there’s usually another justification as well (for example, reading becomes learning German). The closest thing I can come up with is hugging Flame, my little CLF teddy bear. As he’s an inanimate object, I don’t feel as obligated to take his needs in account, so that didn’t fall under “taking care of relationships” or “helping others” or anything like that.
I seem to believe in rainbows! I use a hand symbol of it during Tai Chi and, as a docent at the Governor’s Mansion here in the capital of Missouri. When I lead a group of 4th graders, I often call attention to the refraction of light on the prisms of glass hanging from the chandeliers. So, what experience, just for myself? It IS a difficult thought to develop. I seem to look at the whole of life as offering experiences that at the time one may not realize their value sometime in the future. I have been attending a Parkinson’s Disease support group here in order to understand the situations for a friend of mine in a nearby city who has the disease. Now I have formed a close relationship with a PD member in this local group and it is blossoming into a firm friendship. Never expected this.
looking out the kitchen windows and seeing all the Buffleheads bobbing up in the cove- that and fresh teeny mouse tracks in the snow by my front door.