“Never say never, because limits, like fears, are just an illusion.”
~ Michael Jordan
If you hang around the Internet much, you may have noticed all the inspirational quotes posted by folks.
It seems that people want to escape their dull lives or do something worthy of a legacy, but have a hard time doing so. Quotes seem to be a shout out for escape or a way to get the ball moving in any direction.
I know when I wanted to make a career change in my early thirties, I pasted inspirational quotes all over the wall next to my desk. And it worked. I not only made the change, but also got an essay published about how quotes saved my life. A guy I had briefly worked with said to me, “The most liberating thing I ever did was quit my job without another one.”
He was right … People end up staying in jobs forever that they don’t even like because they are terrified they will not get another one. Does that make sense?
A few months ago, I watched a screwball comedy B movie from the thirties where a young teacher decides to quit her job after one of the older teachers (40!) tells her that life has gone by with nothing to show for it and if she had to do it all over again, she’d do something wild. The young teacher decides to buy some fun clothes, let her long hair down out of its bun, hijack a car and drive around the countryside. She doesn’t know it, but she picked up a gangster’s car and there is a dead body in the back.
The young teacher ends up picking up a guy who was hitchhiking, hiding from the gangsters with him and falling in love with the guy. He is a millionaire … but she doesn’t know it. We find this out later.
What if she hadn’t taken that chance at life, at love, on herself?
Are there any chances you took and are grateful that you did? Or any chances you didn’t take that you wish you had? Or changes you want to take and need a little push?
I’m convinced we are raised to be terrified, so that we stay at the dull job, in that boring relationship or in a state of self-muzzlement to keep us from saying what we really want to say.
“Hey, you might lose your job?” I did twice and it was worth it.
“Hey, you might lose your reputation.” It just made it stronger. Besides, do you really want to live your whole life protecting your reputation?
When you have entire countries doing this, you can end up with cultures where people keep each other down at any cost.
Happiness is seen as dangerous.
There was a time when dancing was banned for being to “out-of-control.” To this day, there are places were people cannot dance.
Dance? Think about it. Talk about clamping down on folks wild spirits.
I’m convinced the world and the people in it would be less violent if limits were not placed on them. When you clamp down on folks, their dreams and desires start to boil, like a pot of soup turned up to high.
But few folks can see that if they stopped the tradition of snuffing out people’s dreams they’d lift each other up and people would probably fight less.
They’d be to busy dancing …
What limitation can you toss off your shoulders?
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Feel more alive,
Giulietta
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