engagements

• What is an engagement?

An engagement is literally every single thing we do. Be it physical or mental.

We engage with our senses (if we touch, listen, see, smell, taste we are engaging). Any physical activity we do, utilizing our senses, we are engaging. For instance, you are engaging with a salad when you taste it. You are engaging with a basketball when you dribil it. You are engaging with your phone when you hold it.

We engage with our mind (if we think, remember, reminisce, calculate, theorize, imagine we are engaging). Any mental activity we do, we are engaging. For instance, you engage with a scene when you remember it, or a conversation you've had. You are engaging with numbers when you calculate in your mind, or when you think of an equation.

Yet all of the above can be argued to be more than just one single engagement. When you eat a salad or remember a moment there is a multitude of engagements taking place.

• Every Activity is a multitude of engagements

Let's say you are playing a basketball game. Then, you are engaging with physical effort (running, jumping, using hand-eye coordination), you are engaging with the game of basketball, you are engaging with other people. You are also engaging with rules and adherence to them (therefore you are engaging with the concepts of fairness and respect- or otherwise). You are engaging with focus, with speed, with planning. You are engaging with a ball. You are engaging with the concept of time and it running out. The list goes on and on...

Let's say you are engaging with a memory, say the memory of the time you had fun having lunch with your friend. Then, you are engaging with 'remembering', you are engaging with your friend (even if not empirically/physically, remembering someone is engaging with that someone), you are engaging with the place you had lunch at, you are engaging with the food you had, you are engaging with 'feelings' (i.e. fun and happiness)... You are engaging with every aspect of that memory...

It is all the same, brushing your teeth, going to work, being in a relationship, driving your car, preparing a meal, watching tv, remembering your grandparents, thinking about theoretical physics, analyzing a past event, missing someone, hugging a friend...

All of these activities are a multitude of engagements clustered together.

Therefore, any activity, is a combination of engagements.

• Impact of engagements

Read the post i wrote 'two sides of the same coin - the engagement coin.' There, you will see the impact of engagements.