Out of My Head

I'm not using dating apps at present in any serious way, but one of them has a slogan... the app made to be deleted.  Well, this blog post is sorta written to be read and then closed to make room for life, though it does open a new avenue for new types of posts.

The Visionquest series was an interesting part of the Wanda trilogy, one which will have me reflecting on it for years to come I am sure.  But, it gave a few gems in the finale that I thought was worthy of note, here.  

For those that don't know the show's structure, Visionquest finds Vision walking around with a whole host of other AI's in his head, as he made space in his server for other AI's created by Stark and Banner and etc.  And, he talks among them through all of his problems and realizations and such, as sort of a scifi version of Inside Out.  It is also similar to how I spend a lot of time thinking though things and have done so for a while, now.  It's not a bad thing.  Indeed, one of the great pivot points in my own healing and development was to stop letting emotions run the show but to use reason to guide my path, a point also made by the show at times.

However, to take a point from one minor thing he says at the end and make a specific point for this blog post, Vision is preparing to walk exit his mind house and tells his son, "It's time that I got out of my head."  I can attest to the need for that, as I have been progressively getting out of my own, more and more.

Yes, there is a time for honest personal reflection and growth from challenging ideas and not being led by emotions but giving pause to fully consider things.  But, there is a time to get out of the house.  It reminds me of Finding Forester, which is another great movie, where one actor was pushing an older writer, played by Sean Connery, to get out to see the world and live it and not just write about it in his books.

In the Visionquest finale, Edith says to someone something that was said episodes earlier, as well.  She says that it is up to us to be the next version of who we once were.  Life is always changing and improving, which she calls updates.  And, that's a lot how life is as well.. things change, and we change.  Our current and future version should not fail to change and imporve, as well as the lives of others that we once knew.  We must make space for everyone to become their best self.

And, so, to conclude this laughably contradictory post that does a lot of thinking to say it's time to get out of our heads, I would simply say that life isn't meant to be a story that we tell ourselves and think over in our head but is an adventure that writes knew chapters by itself, if we just get out of our heads and go out to learn and experience something new.  Have a good week, and don't just live your life in your past or your head in it.