I Want To Fly

More recently a lot of topics have been spinning around my head, I still need to return to the Thoughts on Actors Filmmaking and Collaboration to something about Planning your Entrepreneurial Pursuit and more recently a discussion on the Chasm in Filmmaking as Compared to Music: ?

But for now I want to learn how to fly, or more precisely hover, or even more precisely flow… The concept of ‘flow’ gets tossed about often, athletes, artists, doctors enter the flow (state) when they achieve a zen state. In my interpretation this is a combination of applied knowledge and peace. If we can achieve this state, I believe no matter the situation we can flow like water and wind, with purpose and without opposition. I imagine myself hovering just above the ground: if you have ever been in the flow while running, skiing, snowboarding, biking or whatever your zen place is you might relate. I know personally, I have even been on walks where I feel like I’m floating, because for whatever reason I tapped into a higher energy where ‘things’ are going just right.? More on this in a moment.

Very recently a good friend of mine reminded me of the DOW…No Jimmy not the dow, the TAO. Face to palm, oh right.? Anyway, yeah, I heard of it, googled a reading of it and immediately went to skepticism and ‘geeze I’m already doing this’. I returned again to a different reading and perspective. With that my snarky attitude withered away a little more, upon the third attempt, I opened up to my personal goal of the flow.? Now this wasn’t completely random, more recently I returned to my meditation practice, so perhaps serendipity has come for a visit. It should be noted that this past month was yet another challenging time for your friendly neighborhood entrepreneur.

I highly recommend this reading and interpretation of the Tao

https://youtu.be/hPLHFl7bShM?si=IU2cdA3PStMm8Nxd

Now back to the above, “tapping into a higher energy where ‘things’ are going just right.”? What I have come to accept, is that this doesn’t mean, everything is perfect, that all burdens are lifted, perhaps it really is just the opposite. Kinda like the Matrix, Neo only slowed down time when his life was threatened, which arguably allowed him to flow when life was ‘normal’.? This brings up a heavier more challenging concept that I hope to heavens above and all around to be true.? That to truly enter this Flow State of life, some of us must be challenged and learn how to remain calm and stay mindful when the proverbial excrement is hitting the oscillator.? I know this may sound odd, or maybe not, but I have come to accept that this is my journey. I praise those around me who are supporting me through it, those who are sticking with me and I hope to those same heavens I am rewarding these people with the praise they so deserve. Yes I know my journey is essentially easier than others, but I am not others I am me and this is what I am experiencing and sharing with others. So bear with me. We only know us and our struggles in life, we only know this life, we only know what we do for ourselves and to ourselves, we only know one view of the world, no matter how much empathy we have, seriously we will never know what it is to see through someone else’s eyes, hear through their ears and so fourth.? So for now, I do hope to inspire others to, in the darkest of times, in those moments when you are out on a ledge, praying for wings to grow, perhaps you can just find that flow and as the Beatles sang, just Let it Be.? For here and there is where I see the spirit flow. And so I want to flow and just BE all the time, to find that zen state, to wallow in it, to be in state of bliss no matter.?

Come with me and you’ll feel, a world of pure imagination…

(Credit goes to Nathaniel Ratecliff for the line “out on a ledge, praying for wings to grow,” it isn’t a direct quote, just inspired, from his song 'And it's Still Alright'