NEW DIRECTION

🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION Ed. No. 182

- TO RISK OR NOT TO RISK?

THEY WANTED TO TAKE RISKS

PIC: Ross O’Donovan as Angus and Jo Kennedy as Jackie Mullins

from the Australian Movie “Starstruck” (1982)

Set in Sydney. Directed by Gillian Armstrong

Photo: National Film and Sound Archives

LIMITATIONS

Someone I know says you’ve got to know your limitations.

My response when I hear that line is to repeat this quote…

“*Know what happens if you don’t take a risk? NOTHIN’ ”.

How can we grow if we don’t take some risks in our lives?

To grow you have to find the courage to take a step and that means you may fall over.

My advice to myself (let alone anyone else) is to get up again and keep walking. Easily said. The doing is something else.

I don't know about others but I do know that my limitations, that are very real, frustrate me to buggery. Some like Clover Moore the Lord Mayor of Sydney simply have the strength and resilience to stick at it. Her commitment and capacity are astonishing.

The Lady has demonstrably shown over decades that she has these qualities/talents in abundance. "They" try to pull her down but she keeps moving onward and forward.

And good on her. She's on her path and walking it. A Leader.

Some people have just got 'it'.

Also too there are those in our world who "don't got it".

They wear the most rigid blinkers and they’re not going to budge from their set in stone mindset. Our system has bred this entitled unyielding bloodymindedness.

The Liberal/National Party are a prime example. As a group they simply refuse to budge from their "born to rule" mindset. They just believe, nay, know that they are a superior breed.

This is the very anathema vacuum to what you'd think the grass roots person needs at this time.

The Lib/Nats are not delivering even the slightest sympathy, empathy or one iota of kindness to an electorate that is reeling with disorientation. It's just not in their vocabulary. And they wonder why they are increasingly on the nose. They forgot that they are human beings. They think they are big but in truth have become insignificantly small. Their dwindling numbers in politics continue to reflect this reality.

I'm not saying that there aren't individuals in the LNP who don't have it.

But what I am saying is that as a group (a cause) they've lost it.

They've forgotten why they are there.

Individuals, political parties, corporates even countries can find themselves in this position when they lose the ability to see themselves. They walk down a path towards disconnection.

The post Covid readjustment by Nature is bringing the know alls out of the woodwork stubbornly chipping away... ultimately at their own self worth. They can't see anything other than their own myopically selfish ego view. They couldn't give a tinkers toss about fairness or the responsibility of being part of a larger whole.

They are in fact the "hole". A vacuum that constantly takes.

Not even willing to make a thousandth of a millimetre of movement towards evolving.

A real pain to be around or have around.

Blind to their own ignorance.

We are seeing how simple human need is grinding down the politics of selfishness in all our lives. Those who think they are so very right is what makes them so very wrong.

Nature wins out always but the self righteous are going to fight it right to the end and totally miss out on their lifetime opportunity. That’s what stubbornness does. It causes us to miss out.

In a pathos inclined way to some degree that’s how I view my limitations presently. I’m stuck in cement from which I don’t seem to be able to budge. I'll bet I'm not alone. So what can we do about it? Sorry, I don’t have the answer to that question at the moment.

Although, I suppose we can always try to do something different or differently!

I remember a young family member saying once "I don’t have any talents". And that really was sad. An older and wiser family member responded “Yes you do. We all have our talents. Sometimes we just have to find them”.

And even then having talents is one valuable thing but being able to focus and apply them for the benefit of self understanding/personal growth is a whole another ballgame.

Life and living it to the fullest is one difficult challenge. Sheesh!

Maybe I'm too impatient. But then I have plenty to keep me company. - Neville Williams

*This quote is from the Australian Comedy feature film “Starstruck”(1982)

Directed by Gillian Armstrong. A film about living life to the fullest. - N.