Today I went to yoga with the intention of becoming more enlightened and grounded. The instructor bears a slight resemblance to Val Kilmer, which was very distracting, not because I was ever a huge Val Kilmer fan, but it just felt strange to be thinking about Val Kilmer while I was supposed to be concentrating on my breathing. That led to reminiscing about Top Gun when he was Ice Man, then unfortunately I had the awful love theme from Top Gun going through my head and envisioned Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis making out.

When I managed to concentrate, Val instructed us to focus on opening our hearts with the intent to make us more open and loving. It was actually very lovely, and it worked. Immediately after class I fell in love with my yoga buddy’s boots. Gorgeous, classic, good treads. I loved them and had to get them immediately for myself.

I am now conflicted. I am thrilled with my fabulous boots (although I shouldn’t have been so impulsive and should have waited until they went on sale) but I feel that perhaps I didn’t really absorb the lessons my yogi friend Val was trying to teach me. I am trying to do yoga in order to find a more spiritual side, feed my soul a little. More depth and a shift from strictly material pursuits and superficial thoughts would be nice. If I had really listened to Val, a little more contemplation and a little less shopping would have been the way to go.

I just hope my yoga buddy doesn’t wear anything really cute next week.

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