Saturday, October 30, 2004

 

Jazzed

Overflowing with kinetic, crazed energy brought on by a surge of creative ingenuity (not mine).

So often people trudge, or walk or stomp or slip, through the daily tasks and obligations of living that they don't stop and consider ideas larger than themselves, their family, their town, their job.

It is the interaction with a creative endeavor -- be it a painting, a book, a movie, a song -- that, if one pays enough attention and expands the mind's exploration, can jump start your brain. Your heart races, you have an uncontrollable desire to share this overwhelming sense of understanding, joy, comprehension, knowledge with someone else.

To commune with another person on this realization that there is something interesting about human existence that goes beyond the task-oriented, evolution-focused lives of plants. That if we can be open, honest, caring, sincere, straightforward and loving there is something larger, more powerful, surging that can accompany us on the journey.

And that is what a movie has done for me this evening. It doesn't matter which, it matters more why and what. Sometimes daily routine blocks an attempt to sit and think and focus on a movie, book, painting, speech, idea for fear of the energy that will be sapped from interacting with that creative force and the effort required to consider.

But we forget that often it is the very effort of giving ourselves to an idea, experience or other person that returns the most energy.

Go out and interact. You'll feel better, I promise.
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