Thursday, August 20, 2026
If you were God you’d be completely competent, omnipotent, and omniscient, and you’d have it “all figured out.” There would be no more mystery. Does that not seem dreadfully hellish?
You’d long for getting yourself into all sorts of mischief, trouble, and jams. If you knew all futures, all possibilities, and all pasts, you’d long for something – to not know all futures, past, and possibilities. To “get lost.”
And that’s what this world is – a chance to get lost, but in the most childish and fantastical ways! To abandon pretense and to adventure is to live. To wander into the woods for no reason. To strip naked, to lie under the stars, and to feel the wind in your “intimate,” secret places. To expose yourself, the hidden parts, the taboo.
To see, to be seen, and to be the scene. There is part of us hiding. There is a part of us seeking, but both of these truths are not hidden from themselves. Totally identifiable. You’re a thrill-seeker. So why not put yourself “out there?” Why not tantalize yourself with the danger of getting caught, stumbling, or being laughed at?
Provocative, until you realize there is no danger. We’re all like that.
Even though you recognize this, it will never take the adventure out of being you. But the adventure is part of the game. We’ve forgotten who we are, and this mystery allows us to be naked children, playing in a maze, wandering about – making it up as we go along. Thus, we return, naked as children.
If you catch on, you can be bold. In “Ground Hog’s Day,” Bill Murray’s character finally catches on. He abandons trying, and just plays along with light-heartedness.
If you try to win, you’ll loop the same day over and over again. If you let go and release, yet play along with love, life finally gets some traction and you “move forward.”