This video compliments my earlier post about Authenticity. Alan Watts is a really fascinating philosopher who has always managed to take complex Eastern themes and put them into Western terms. This video illustrates my point about doing what really matters to you and focusing on how you get to where you are going, rather than the goal or destination itself. I hope you like it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4
I just KNEW this was a Parker / Stone production! How very appropriate that perhaps the greatest satirists of our time chose to illustrate an Alan Watts concept.
ReplyDeleteI really need to reflect on all the years I studied music. I need to give myself a little credit for "adjudicators" consistently commenting about my musicianship; my ability to feel a musical phrase and communicate its nuance. In all my years playing violin, it never, ever occurred to me that I was driving just to the final chord. Each note had a purpose; a tempo; a dynamic that contributed to the overall experience. Yup - sometimes I technically tripped up; missed a few notes or a bowing. BUT I ALWAYS RECOVERED... and the majority of people I played for never even noticed. If they did, I most often was complimented for my ability to keep going. THE ABILITY TO KEEP GOING.
Thanks for posting this, Kaycie. It truly spoke to me.
Mom, I can't tell you how happy that makes me. I expressed to you my desire to impact people with my writing, but if you are the only person I was meant to impact I would be more than content with that. I love you and I'm so happy that we are communicating so well lately. It makes me feel so alive!
DeleteAbsoultely love the video Kace. Thanks a bunch for sharing!
ReplyDeleteIt is such a good, simple, visual way of explaining exactly how I have felt the past couple years. For a while, I was really pissed at no one in particular, society I guess, for giving me the expectation that after college, I would get a job and make loads of money and be successful, having achieved what I was supposed to because I always did what I was supposed to. I am actually very thankful that is not how it worked out. What I am still ticked about, is that we push this sequencing of life on everyone, holding it as this standard everyone must achieve or else. Or else what? Those who have achieved A>B>C and are working toward D feel pity for you? You're destined for failure, right? Or maybe you find your own path that suits you. Who cares what you are supposed to do.
"We missed the point the whole way along - it was a musical thing. And you were supposed to sing or dance while the music was being played."
Yes.