Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
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Enjoyment is an attitude...
Queens Square, Bath, 1784 by Thomas Malton
We passed through Bath at the weekend on our way back from a family birthday celebration in Somerset and enjoyed a few hours taking in the Georgian atmosphere including Royal Crescent and Queens Gardens which was home to Jane Austen for a short while in 1789. Indeed Bath features in several of her novels and most the addresses of her characters can still be traced.
Austen stayed in as many as six addresses in Bath during the late 18th and early 19th century and one of them was 13 Queens Gardens. We stood outside for a minute, finding it hard to believe that either the square or her address has changed much since that time. While the house is unaltered, there are now tall trees in the square, but the towering central needle that we see today has actually been there since 1773. What a view from her bedroom window that looked over the square.
Queens Square, Bath, today.
Jane Austen was an enthusiastic letter writer and her inspiration was clearly not limited to fiction. There is one quote from a letter to her sister Cassandra I think, that I'd like to copy here for you....
"I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it."
Now there's a lady who knew how to be happy; she did not think it worth while to wait for some real opportunity for enjoyment, but rather made it for herself. It was her choice....to enjoy. Clearly she saw enjoyment as a condition or an attitude that we can bring on for ourselves, rather than something that is dependent on circumstances.
Yes, let's just .....enjoy. :-)
