finding what we appreciate
some times we forget what really matters in this world. we get caught up in what we think we need to be doing instead of what we should be really doing... and that is living the life that feels right. and it may not even be easy to admit, but it is out there and what most of us do is forget to pay attention.
my own life had been interrupted by everyone else living a certain life that i though i was too stupid or not good enough to live. but i didn't have that guidance that told me to find it out till later. ...then somehow i stumbled upon it. enlightenment. quite a concept, huh? enlightenment isn't just one path. it is different, in fact can be very different, for each person whom follows it. i think of it as letting go, realizing that nothing is certain or suppose to be a particular way.
in the 1950's people saw it as this idea that the husband went off to work for 8 hours will the wife stayed at home. one day they would have kids and then one day they move out, go to school, meet someone, get married and life just begins again. most of us have learned that this life it nothing more than a poor story line that was once created for several television shows that eventually just go canceled because, well, lets face it, no one gives a shit about the people that live life the same day in and day out, and at the end of each learn a little something and they live happily ever after. the kind of stories that were created about kings and queens, but with far less interest... at least to me.
i had another epiphany today. it centered around this movie that i saw having to do with a man that just did it the same every day. some how his life was just a bit to formulated, but yet he was comfortable. and then you find that this nothing more than a story that is being created. but as simple and routine this mans life was, is really more the basis that we all can sometimes live. this tragic life were we do nothing but be comfortable.
we as humans somehow are driven towards this comfortably, not happiness. we get caught up in it and forget about the drive that we once had as children. to become what seemed to really bring us happiness. it's either that first failure or slap in the face from something cold called reality. why, cause lets face it, what really is reality? something a bunch of people over the course of some thousands of years came up with.
our fate is what we choose it. it doesn't have to be what my father calls "turning out like our parents." just because he is choosing to become his father, doesn't mean that i have to become mine. and just because he ended up in a job that i just some thing that makes money not happiness, doesn't mean that is what i need to do.
the movie Stranger than Fiction that we saw tonight reminded me of this longing that i have often had for things or people. the life or idea of a person that you see in the movies that you want but thing you can never have. why? i thing that most of us just don't want to get away from our comfortably, unless faced by something like death. the trip into the unknown. but Dustin Hoffman's character had an interesting point, if not now, someday. and if that is the thing that changes people's prospective to motivation and push us to were we wish we always were, then why not now? what is it that keeps us from that? money? lack of influence? well something that ironically we have learned from the movies, nothing is out of our reach.
but maybe it takes that realization to change our attitude. maybe it is fate. lol. just kidding.
my own life had been interrupted by everyone else living a certain life that i though i was too stupid or not good enough to live. but i didn't have that guidance that told me to find it out till later. ...then somehow i stumbled upon it. enlightenment. quite a concept, huh? enlightenment isn't just one path. it is different, in fact can be very different, for each person whom follows it. i think of it as letting go, realizing that nothing is certain or suppose to be a particular way.
in the 1950's people saw it as this idea that the husband went off to work for 8 hours will the wife stayed at home. one day they would have kids and then one day they move out, go to school, meet someone, get married and life just begins again. most of us have learned that this life it nothing more than a poor story line that was once created for several television shows that eventually just go canceled because, well, lets face it, no one gives a shit about the people that live life the same day in and day out, and at the end of each learn a little something and they live happily ever after. the kind of stories that were created about kings and queens, but with far less interest... at least to me.
i had another epiphany today. it centered around this movie that i saw having to do with a man that just did it the same every day. some how his life was just a bit to formulated, but yet he was comfortable. and then you find that this nothing more than a story that is being created. but as simple and routine this mans life was, is really more the basis that we all can sometimes live. this tragic life were we do nothing but be comfortable.
we as humans somehow are driven towards this comfortably, not happiness. we get caught up in it and forget about the drive that we once had as children. to become what seemed to really bring us happiness. it's either that first failure or slap in the face from something cold called reality. why, cause lets face it, what really is reality? something a bunch of people over the course of some thousands of years came up with.
our fate is what we choose it. it doesn't have to be what my father calls "turning out like our parents." just because he is choosing to become his father, doesn't mean that i have to become mine. and just because he ended up in a job that i just some thing that makes money not happiness, doesn't mean that is what i need to do.
the movie Stranger than Fiction that we saw tonight reminded me of this longing that i have often had for things or people. the life or idea of a person that you see in the movies that you want but thing you can never have. why? i thing that most of us just don't want to get away from our comfortably, unless faced by something like death. the trip into the unknown. but Dustin Hoffman's character had an interesting point, if not now, someday. and if that is the thing that changes people's prospective to motivation and push us to were we wish we always were, then why not now? what is it that keeps us from that? money? lack of influence? well something that ironically we have learned from the movies, nothing is out of our reach.
but maybe it takes that realization to change our attitude. maybe it is fate. lol. just kidding.