Just when you think nobody's reading..
Well the question that was faced yesterday was this:
(thank you TJ and Jason's dad)
What did you want to do when you were 5 or 12?
Basically, when you played before you had to filter everything through societal pressures and notions of money$$, what did you do? How did you play? what did you want to imagine yourself doing the most?
That's called a career choice. Money will follow it, rather than following the money. How many kids when asked what they wanted to be when they grew up said, "insurance broker" or "real estate salesperson"? When you were a kid and dreamed of playing in the grandest way possible (ie pursuing some kind of dream job/life) What was it? What kind of play did you aspire to get to do?
I wanted to hunt archaeological artifacts. learn the ways of the Force. be a paleontologist and dig up dinosaurs, backpack across the world in search of the perfect beach, fight with Gollum, be a Goonie. I am going to marry Natalie Portman.
This is my play, I am Beowulf! and to this day I watch pieces of entertainment that I love and copy, and think through. I just finished the second Indiana Jones last night, and was so inspired by Harrison Ford and Speilberg's passion. Such awesome filmmaking.
I think we'd all give anything to be Dr. Jones.
Thing is, this is an ageless human experience. There is evidence of humans "dreaming" and imagining since the beginning of written history. I mean, look at religion! It's a dream, beliefs that people live and die by!! That's a hell of a game right there. Look at Shakespeare, he wrote down his meticulously contrived dreams and created imaginative and timeless works of language art. Look at the Golden Gate bridge, somebody's dream, now a fixed symbol in American life. Look at Steinbeck's writings, automobiles, colorful dresses, entire cities founded on a people's ability to dream and pursue that dream. It's play, and look what it gives us. We collectively dream, we always have, and I think every childhood dream is worth fighting for. We live in a society where we can pursue what we love. It's like our duty, almost. It sets an example: that you don't have to stay home or in a job that you don't believe in. If you believe you can build the next Golden Gate bridge, then by god go out and learn about it and fall in love with it and build it! If you have always had a dream of being a pilot, you can work hard, get your license and fly! You are free to live it. It's like popping your back into place after years of a kink.
A quote I used to love is this:
"I don't care what you believe. Just believe it"
It's from a movie. A sci-fi at that.
Sorry this was a cheesy rant. and I know how some of you despise my "preachings".
But deal, you know this one's for good.
;)
1 comment:
i like that idea, actually, that the way you played as a kid has some influence over what you want to do when you get older. hmmm, so i will write stories, swim oceans, have babies, play dress up, put on plays and puppet shows, and bake...okay i can dig it! anyway, have you watched yourself in dad's video online when mom is realllllly digging on yours and matt's haircuts and then you're eating chunks of cheese (?) and explaining what it is like to fly in peter pan. i love it. it's so you in a weird way.
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