without meditation

Out late at a party, waking late with a busy day ahead, so easy to  miss meditation, so easy.  But it's like missing out on water because you have had other drinks to cover the idea of thirst, coffee in the morning, tea in the afternoon, wine in the evening when what you really really love is the water.  So, although you wake up a bit late, you know what you need to do to bring yourself to yourself, you need to meditate.  Especially when you can see that everything round you is in the process of change, bodies getting older, problems rising from that, worries about health, about family, about houses and maintenance of all these things, all this sets meditation as a way of establishing and maintaining some equilibrium and equanimity in the face of change.