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课时作业(十一) Unit 3 The world online
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(2022·江苏省南京市质量检测)As a working mother, my years passed without time for relaxing. The kids have been out of the nest, and I have been retired. Now I could take some time for ME!
1. As a lifelong list maker, I did my research. There were relaxation activities like meditation(冥想), exercise, socializing...I was determined to find the one thing that truly filled my soul. And so I began my notsosmooth journey to find myself.
Meditation was the first to come and go. I never fully understood how to shut my mind off. I always felt like I was just waiting for it to end. Next, I tried “Teatime as My Time.”2. I imagined sitting across from a dear friend, drinking elegantly from delicate cups, but that is as far as it ever went. I have the fancy tea set (never used) and a shelf full of tea packages that I will never consume. Exercise is a highly recommended metime activity. But for me, after a week or so of training, exercise time was killing me. 3.
Many other metime experiments left me wanting less of them, not more. I felt like a failure at this metime thing. I could spend the whole morning watching the big, fuzzy bees in my garden. In those moments, time stood still. 4. I discovered that I truly desired less emphasis on me altogether.
Maybe the experts had this metime thing all wrong, and it had little to do with “me” or “time” as I was defining it. Perhaps we are too concerned with how we spend our time instead of enjoying the nothingness of simply being. Instead of viewing it as a hesitation between activities, we can shift our awareness into welcoming timelessness. 5. Maybe a better version of “me time” is simply “be time”...or, better yet, “bee time”!
A.Taking the focus off myself was a relief.
B.Of course, there were many possibilities.
C.At first, I was very enthusiastic about this.
D.So, I eventually crossed these ideas off my list.
E.Sitting around feeling special doesn’t feel special to me