The Future Has Arrived

The future has arrived.

We are obsessed with the future, we dream of it, we worry about it, we invest far more in it than we do the present moment. Living in 2010 sometimes I give pause to the idea that this time is the time my parents dreamed about as some far flung time with unfathomable inventions. The fact that I am writing this on my tiny net book and I will post it remotely through basically the air or wirelessly in itself is amazing. I am a little disappointed that I am not clad in a groovy silver jumpsuit, because everyone knows that silver is comfy to wear.

Okay, so the future is not exactly what our parents expected, we are not in the middle of an intergalactic conflict with green tentacled men, we don't have flying cars, and we are still highly dependent of fossil fuels. As I check my email on a phone that suspiciously looks like the data pads from a certain space show I can't help but remember the words of Albert Einstein “Imagination is more important than intelligence.”

Keep Moving Forward

I love the movie Meet The Robinsons, its not just the plethora of jokes and gags, honestly, if you're an adult, this movie has the sort of jokes that are for the kid in you. I imagine the screen writers to have te he'd their way through most of it, saying things like “Wouldn't it be funny if...” Its smart, its funny and one of the most thoughtful in the Disney vault.

Its the one movie that pays the most homage to Walt Disney since his death. Taking a Walt Disney quote and surrounding a movie around it “Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. - Walt Disney “

Right now the focus of a lot of people is “the damn economy” they are so focused on the past and worried about the future that they forget to see what is now. Yes, our economy is in a slump, people are out of work, more people are losing their jobs, yes it is a fact. But the moment you become paralysed with past failures and future worries you give up on that future that has you so worried.

Its not as though not worrying is easy to do, I worry, but I have also learned to let go of the worry. They say that the one way to know that you are on the right track is to check with your emotional barometer, if you are happy, content or can feel the content bubbling up in your soul than you are on the right track. Sometimes its hard to stifle the negative Nelly that lives within all of us, but the best course of action is to just keep moving forward. Do what is within your power and dream of a brighter future, not the one that is born of worry, that focuses on the needless shame of failure.

From failing you learn, from success not so much- Aunt Billie.

It is through failure that we learn the most about who we are, what we can accomplish and how to improve things. It is through failure and struggle that we learn the most. Often people feel shame for failing, as children upon taking our first steps and stumbling I doubt we felt shame for failing. You fell on your little diapered butt, maybe you cried, maybe you laughed but if you walked today, I'll assume you probably got up and waddled your way through life. It is the getting up that matters, and it is the staying down that is the true failure.