Volume 7 · The Long Afternoon · Essay 240

Sense Forage

Some ideas arrive wearing uniforms. Sense Forage arrives in a kurta — plain, comfortable, and ready for work.

The idea is simple, and like most simple ideas it is easy to nod at and hard to use. The nod is free. The use costs attention, every day, in small change.

Consider the railway porter who has carried ten thousand suitcases. He knows what nobody packs: a plan for what happens after arrival.

In the end, life asks only whether we were awake while it happened. Print it on a card if you like. Better: print it on a habit.