Thoughts

Is there such a thing as the right place to be? Is everything just luck and happenstance?

There are many ways to look at the world and I wonder how, and why I have found myself in the place that I am at? Joseph Campbell would tell me that if I have followed my bliss, then I will see at the end of my life, a grand design was being executed without my knowledge. That makes me wonder if there is still magic in the world, or if we make our opportunities? What if it is a matter of survival, and that what we see laid out before us?

I have always believed that life was more about perception, and point of view than reality. Some people hate stress, others thrive on it. Some want to take the final shot at the buzzer, others want to pass the ball to the guy who takes the shot. Things are only as bad as you allow yourself to believe that they are. (Clearly, there is an exception to this rule. If you are on a sinking ship without a lifeboat, there is no point of view that will make it okay.) It’s the old interview rule, don’t tell your new boss it was a “problem,” instead call it a “challenge.”

We are all just making it up as we go, and some us enjoy the game of improv that is underway.