Wednesday, December 11, 2024
I was speaking to a friend yesterday and he wanted to ask a girl out on a date, but he stopped himself. I know a person who wants to live in my city, but he is afraid because it’s too expensive. Basically, it’s “too scary.”
If you examine your wants, you’ll see what I’m talking about. You don’t do what you want to because you are afraid. You’re afraid at some fundamental level that you might just be a “mere mortal.” You don’t operate fearlessly as Samantha on Bewitched. That’s because she knew she had power. She knew that what she wanted was as easy as a nose wiggle.
For 25 years, I waved my arms in the air. I conducted choirs, which is just waiving my hands around, sometimes with a baton, like a Harry Potter wand. If aliens had powerful telescopes, they would see that we’re just like birds and fish. The fish wiggle. The birds chirp and flit about, and we do the same.
Since I was 12, I wiggled my fingers and tapped my toes, playing the organ, and I was supported and lived a great life. Chirp, chirp, chirp – tap, tap, tap – now I tap my fingers on a keyboard of a different kind. I “speak” like a cardinal. From outer space, it looks like humans are birds, ants, or bees – buzz buzz buzz, tap tap tap, chirp chirp chirp.
What’s so scary? Twirl around, twitch your nose, tap the keyboard, flit the brush on a canvas, or walk up to the girl of your dreams and chirp chirp chirp. It’s just movement. It’s just vibration. It’s impersonal. There’s nothing to be afraid of. Twitch your nose. How is life any more or less silly?