In a world filled with distractions it may at times be hard to hone in on what makes you- you. What gives you a spark in life? What will push you to the next level? After being told for weeks that I needed yo do so, I finally saw the Pixar movie Soul.
And, it was as great as everyone had told me it would be. Although, admitted, I do have to rewatch it as I got a bit distracted looking up Trent Reznor’s (who did some of the music for the movie) latest work and photos. He looks nothing like he used to, by the way.
But back to the movie. Look, we all want to know what makes us tick and what we want out of life. Well, many of us do. Many of us think we know and pursue certain paths because we have talked ourselves into it. Yet sometimes you need a knock on the head to make you take stock of what motivates you. And, then contemplate how to do it?
We sometimes pigeonhole ourselves. I’ve done healthcare for so long that I could perhaps stay comfortably in it. Maybe. Others have pigeonholed me as such. Yet, I need not do that to myself as well.
Soul reminds us to live each day. It’s not a bad take home message. Both kids and adults will get a boost from this movie. Try it and try living it.
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“Soul” A Movie Trailer my Sister Turned me onto A Few
Months Ago Watching It of course A Familiar
Human Archetype
Arises As Usual
The Heroes Journey
For Everyone As they Are
Called to An Adventure That
Their Current CuLTuRE Whatever that
May Be in Home, Work, School, Or Church
Life is Diametrically Opposed to in Existing Paradigm Ways
Of Whatever CuLTuRaL Clothes and Tools of Prison One may
See Themselves
Currently Found
Yet Lost
in So Far
Away From What
Fulfills The Nature of Who
We Truly May Be Within Yes
So The Adventure Deep Within
Starts the Dance And Then the Sing
We Do to Create New Pathways oF LiFE
Out of Plato’s Cave of Before or Whatever
Other Metaphor We May Create in Symbols
And Totems of Life That Drive Us Forward Out
of the Cave into New Light And Original Ways
of Cave Art Not Seen Yet Where We Lived in
A Cocoon Before Just Waiting to Be A
Caterpillar’s Dream With Wings to
Fly Higher Than Crawling on
The Earth or Even the
Belly of the
Snake
We Are Restricted
to What CuLTuRE
Externally Spoon-Feeds
From Plastic Bottles From Birth
Or Glass Baby Food Jars Whatever
The Vehicle or Vessel Whatever the Myth
of CuLTuRE IS That is Not What Our Authentic Being
i Am Within Wishes to FLoWeR the Most From the Seed
Otherwise MaKinG It Into King/Queen Never Becoming A Living Tree
Anyway yes i once Surmised From Your Chinese New Year that
You May Be A Dozen And One or So Years Younger Than me if
So that is the Same Age i Found My Way Out of the Cocoon to
Soul Free Wings of Butterfly Yet It Took A Sledgehammer of Stress
To Destroy Everything i was Like Sand Polished on the Beach to Diamond
More than
Just
Seed
Made Into King/Queen
For What i Believed
Was the Height of My
Tree Just a Seed in the
Prison of What Culture Taught i other wise was
So Yeah i Paid a Price of 66 Months of my Life
Shut-in in Pain and Numb To No Longer Be
Caterpillar
After Escaping
That 66 Month
Cocoon A Lot Goes
On IN A Cocoon
That Most
Folks
Have No Idea
Exists at all Same
Is True of A Butterfly With Wings
As the Archetypal Human Hero Story Delivers Us From Evil….
The True Evil of not Freeing Our Soul With Wings Living Tree
Moral oF A STory After as i’ve Related Before After i Escaped
The Cocoon And My Air Force Reserve Major Psychiatrist
Noted That Meditative Free Dance in Flow and The same
In Meditative Free Verse Poetry Released my Wings
Free From All the Pain and Numb What He
Couldn’t Do With all the Drugs he Tried
on me And All 7 Years and 7 Months
of Talk Therapy Up to That Point
He Asked me What Percentage
of Your Authentic Self Were You
When You Were Athletic Director of
A Military Installation Managing Information
Technology Issues And Financial Problems of
Your Entire Department Working for the Government
i Raised My Hand With the Symbol of A Zero Shortly After
That He Quit His Practice Moved to South Florida to Teach
Movement Therapy At A Teaching Hospital And Told Me my
Story Inspired Him to Change His Story in A New Call to Adventure too
He Decided That the Medicine Part of Psychiatry isn’t What It’s all ‘Cracked Up’
To Be Like Banging the Side of A Computer Forgetting This Computer Has Living Roots A Tree
We So-Called Modern Humans Reduce All of Existence to Material Reductionism And True
Systemizing Order Into Chaos Is What Humans Do to Reduce Anxiety too Yet There is
A Much Bigger
Picture to
Find Yes
Our Roots
Our Leaves That
Feed Our Soul Green
GRoWinG Taller than What
CuLTuRE Spoon Feeds Us to Be
And What Do We Do After Growing ‘Sycamore Tall’
We Shed Our Leaves Everywhere We Go to Fertilize
Soils/Souls So Other Seeds That May Have Once Believed
They are King and Or Queen May Find A Spark A Muse Yes
An Inspiration Yes A Fertilizer The Leaves That Fall off Of Living
Trees So We Will Branch Out into Our Calls Of Adventures And Become Both Leaf And Wind
In The Christian Religion This Is Related As Reborn Yet is the Same Hero Archetype That is
Applicable to
All As Sadly
That Religion
Makes the Seed the
Sugar Pill King And Forgets
The Essence of the Story is Free For All
i Listened to A Bishop Say that the Vatican
in a ‘Counsel Meeting’ Decided that the Hindu
And the Buddhist Will Find a Way to the Sugar Pill
Jesus Within Even Without the Name Of The Sugar Pill too…
True When Stories Become God We Fail to Create Our Own
And Join Hands Free With God Nature It’s Ironic Yet That’s
What Happens When the Seed Becomes Queen And Or King
And Never Living
Tree Loving Free
For True Yes
That Seed
Must Die
To Flourish
As Caterpillar
Moves From Cocoon to Wings
The Whole Message is In the Seed
The Tree Housed in the Leaves of Our Soul Living Green
i realize this isn’t What ‘They’ Teach in Psychology and Health
Schools And Yes My Psychiatrist Came to Realize the Same As Living Tree too…
As i’m Sure i’ve Mentioned at One Point or Another My 3 Degrees Are In Health Science
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Which Includes Psychology And Anthropology As Well
None of That Really Or the 33 Years of Work Including 25 With Federal Employment
Really Prepared me to Find the Cocoon Escape with Wings Indeed A Very Personal
Journey That Only Each Human Will Seek and Find Within No One in my UniVerse
Before Outside of me Would Have Ever imagined What i would become Next Nor me
A Totally
Different
Creature
A Caterpillar then…
SMiLes It’ll be Nice to
See What You Become Next
Although It’s True if Blogging isn’t
Part of it i won’t get to see it Yet that’s OK too….
Sadly Neither of my Parents Could Understand What i Became And Other Friends too
And That’s Okay too as Butterflies Fly Differently True When Free Flying Away With Wings…
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You’re the second person I follow to blog about joy this morning. Huh. Must be something in the air.
I have joy, and a little happy dance, every time I finish a scene in the second volume of my mainstream trilogy – because, except for tiny typo corrections, I’ve done as good a job as I will, and when I come back to it from then on it is as a reader, not as someone looking to fix anything.
I am very hard on myself (the howls of protest during editing!) until I write YAY! in my journal for finished scenes – and then it’s DONE.
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