Tuesday, November 15, 2005
A Piece of Wisdom
I just had a really positive interview with Peak Potentials. I even enjoyed the part where I got lost getting there, because I was in North Vancouver and ended up driving through some really inspiringly beautiful homes. Feeling good afterwards I was driving over the Lion's Gate bridge and I thought about something I recently read.
Detachment involves not hanging on. Yes? Yes. But this wise person's words reminded me that detachment is about practising releasing IT ALL...not just the sucky stuff. Which means, when something wonderful happens to you, allow yourself to feel it and then release it, too. I find this fascinating. An Oprah Ah-ha moment. To become detached in that peaceful way that allows you to watch your life events unfold instead of allowing them to determine Who You Are...you must understand that the good stuff is as much not Who You Are and the crappy stuff. A great interview doesn't make me successful, nor does a poor interview. Getting the job doesn't make me worthy, nor does not getting the job. Being in love doesn't make you loveable, nor does spending Saturday nights with your only your cat and an Adam Sandler movie. Being successful and loveable and worthy are just what you are. 3rd to 1st person - they are just what I AM. I am not my circumstances. They are a movie that I am directing and If I don't like what I am seeing on the screen I can edit or recast or fire my DP. But that movie is not Me. I am that I am and what I am will never be compromised by circumstance.
So....I breathed in the good interview and let it go. What will happen will happen. They will offer it to me or they won't. I will accept or I won't. Perhaps I am supposed to work for CSL instead or focus on my own work or maybe it is all true and false at the same time. Releasing. Detaching. Big concepts for a controller like myself. Ah, life is good.
Off to my next interview. Raining again today in Vancouver. Like Jo always says - gray means green.
Will leave you with two words that changed my life.
Applause Dies.
...and in the resulting silence what do you hear?
Exactly.
Detachment involves not hanging on. Yes? Yes. But this wise person's words reminded me that detachment is about practising releasing IT ALL...not just the sucky stuff. Which means, when something wonderful happens to you, allow yourself to feel it and then release it, too. I find this fascinating. An Oprah Ah-ha moment. To become detached in that peaceful way that allows you to watch your life events unfold instead of allowing them to determine Who You Are...you must understand that the good stuff is as much not Who You Are and the crappy stuff. A great interview doesn't make me successful, nor does a poor interview. Getting the job doesn't make me worthy, nor does not getting the job. Being in love doesn't make you loveable, nor does spending Saturday nights with your only your cat and an Adam Sandler movie. Being successful and loveable and worthy are just what you are. 3rd to 1st person - they are just what I AM. I am not my circumstances. They are a movie that I am directing and If I don't like what I am seeing on the screen I can edit or recast or fire my DP. But that movie is not Me. I am that I am and what I am will never be compromised by circumstance.
So....I breathed in the good interview and let it go. What will happen will happen. They will offer it to me or they won't. I will accept or I won't. Perhaps I am supposed to work for CSL instead or focus on my own work or maybe it is all true and false at the same time. Releasing. Detaching. Big concepts for a controller like myself. Ah, life is good.
Off to my next interview. Raining again today in Vancouver. Like Jo always says - gray means green.
Will leave you with two words that changed my life.
Applause Dies.
...and in the resulting silence what do you hear?
Exactly.
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