Step Up

I watched Tomorrowland the other day.  I don't know why I took so long to watch it.  Well, yes... I do.  Just like with my playlists a lot of my life is led by inner feelings and sometimes things look good but is not the right timing to digest it.  So, later, I come back to it and absorb it.  This was a good time to do so.

There are a lot of great quotes in that movie, but I will lead off this post with an exchange at the beginning of it.  In the beginning the teacher was presenting the doom and gloom about how the world is falling apart socially and physically.  Then, the main star of the movie raised her hand and asked what we are doing about it to fix it.  The teacher looked stunned as if he never would have considered that.

That, I think, is a very good analysis of where we are as a society, both on a large geopolitical manner and a person to person manner.  There is a lot of doom and gloom being presented by political figures and some media outlets that are, as she says in one part of the movie, feeding the wrong wolf.. the one of depression instead of the one of hope, and the wolf that gets fed is the one that wins out over the other.

Why do people do that?  Another figure, later in the movie, answers that question.  He says...

"In every moment there's the possibility of a better future, but you people won't believe it. And because you won't believe it you won't do what is necessary to make it a reality. So, you dwell on this terrible future. You resign yourselves to it for one reason, because *that* future does not ask anything of you today." Tomorrowland

Exactly.  It is a lot easier to sink into a self sacrificial delusion and depression than to actually rise up and do something to... fix it... as she asked.  That takes effort and pain and struggle and risk.  I am in the middle of a plan of taking such a risk to reconnect with some that has been separate, and there is no guarentee that it will be successful.  However, whether it is successful and whether it is easy is not the standard.  It is something that I want, and it is right.  And, so I go.  I made the plan to do so with the full expectation that it would get difficult, but I am finding something true that I recently saw in a quote from Rumi, "As you start to walk on the way, the way appears," and I am being met with a very smooth path, now.  But, even if the smooth and blessed path went away, I would still follow it.

While it is important to observe reality and flow with it towards what you desire and need, it is not a process that is done when it is safe or easy or accepted.  It is born out of a heart that has the courage to say.. I am worthy of my best.  So, that would be my challenge to you this weekend.. are you giving your dreams your best?  If not, step up.  You are worth it.