Emotions were reflected
I have watched a couple of amazing series on Netflix over the past year and a half. As I reflect on the ones that serendipitously slipped into my voyageur like viewing pleasure, I realize emotions were reflected for me by the characters in the shows: what I needed and wanted to feel was lived out on my behalf, on the screen.
While I became familiar with the characters in each show, I learned their names, their likes and dislikes, their idiosyncratic dispositions and behaviours. Some of the characters oddly represented replicas in my own life, people that I know! Uncomfortably, some of the characters were awkward, annoying, unpleasant with jagged reactions and selfish responses to the circumstances in the "show", and I was confronted with this two part question: am I like that, is that how people see me? This leads me to the premise of this writing dear reader: we all have certain traits and inclinations, not all of them admirable or desirable. The fun part is when we take a good hard look at ourselves, the people in our lives, and even the characters we relate to in the shows we watch, and choose to develop our own characters, as it were!
The shows that moved me
The past couple of years have been growth inducing for me and my family. While I grieved loss, I watched Longmire. When I longed for dedicated love, I watched Friday Night Lights. When I wanted to learn what family unity looked like, I watched This is Us. Now dear one, with a smirk, I tell you that a new series has entered into my edified life. Shall I tell you what it is?
Live this crazy adventure Life
Before I share the new series, I must tell you where I am and why. There are character strengths that I possess: we all have them so this is not a prideful statement, I am not being a braggart here. The difference between me and maybe you, is I have done an inventory of my traits. I know who I am, who I am not, and who I want to become. Where I am is right here, learning and growing: willing to be taught. The why part of all this is called Life: wonderful-awe-inspired-get-to-live-this-crazy-adventure Life! It is a thrill to get up in the morning and know, that another day awaits for me to discover... to discover! I am evolving, changing, being moulded and shaped. and my character is developing: I have some desire, which leads me to telling you what my newest favourite watchable on Netflix series is...
Agents of good
Life in Pieces. We fall to pieces; we put the pieces back together again; we become fragmented and reconnected and, at the risk of a run on sentence, the bits and pieces of who we are is really this marvellous collage of all the characters we have encountered, run away from, drawn near to, lived with, loved, moved away from, collided with, and bounced off of and lastly, fallen into. We are a mix and match of each other, picking up the pieces of our own lives while hopefully being agents of good in the lives of others.
Life in pieces
Life in Pieces is a composite of characters; people whose traits I would like to develop in my own life. Emotionally speaking, this show is the me of now, and the me I want to live into as this New Year begins. I can add and subtract traits dear one, as I develop my own character: and so can you!
Follow these steps
1. I challenge you to take an inventory, or lack thereof, of your character traits. It is okay dear one, sometimes we must be cruel to ourselves to ultimately be kind: you have heard the expression, honesty is the best policy, right? You have some wonderful and not so wonderful traits, take the time to figure them out
2. Write out the traits you admire in others and long to possess
3. Find someone, or many someones, that have these traits, and copy them for goodness sakes! We learn by example and through practice. This is true in the physical and emotional realms
4. Ask yourself some questions: What is thematic in my life? Does the theme reflect what I desire? Does it mirror what I admire?
5. This last step is up to you dear one... I don't want to take you too far up the ladder I have in front of me, you have your own to climb! You get to figure out step 5!
Suggestion
I will make a suggestion though: watch the shows I did. They brilliantly display humanity in all manners of guts and glory, despicable pretence and selfishness, generosity and hatred, love and cruelty, misunderstanding and wisdom. You get the picture, now go develop your character. That is your work for 2019. My desire is to live as fully as is humanly possible.
I have watched a couple of amazing series on Netflix over the past year and a half. As I reflect on the ones that serendipitously slipped into my voyageur like viewing pleasure, I realize emotions were reflected for me by the characters in the shows: what I needed and wanted to feel was lived out on my behalf, on the screen.
While I became familiar with the characters in each show, I learned their names, their likes and dislikes, their idiosyncratic dispositions and behaviours. Some of the characters oddly represented replicas in my own life, people that I know! Uncomfortably, some of the characters were awkward, annoying, unpleasant with jagged reactions and selfish responses to the circumstances in the "show", and I was confronted with this two part question: am I like that, is that how people see me? This leads me to the premise of this writing dear reader: we all have certain traits and inclinations, not all of them admirable or desirable. The fun part is when we take a good hard look at ourselves, the people in our lives, and even the characters we relate to in the shows we watch, and choose to develop our own characters, as it were!
The shows that moved me
The past couple of years have been growth inducing for me and my family. While I grieved loss, I watched Longmire. When I longed for dedicated love, I watched Friday Night Lights. When I wanted to learn what family unity looked like, I watched This is Us. Now dear one, with a smirk, I tell you that a new series has entered into my edified life. Shall I tell you what it is?
Live this crazy adventure Life
Before I share the new series, I must tell you where I am and why. There are character strengths that I possess: we all have them so this is not a prideful statement, I am not being a braggart here. The difference between me and maybe you, is I have done an inventory of my traits. I know who I am, who I am not, and who I want to become. Where I am is right here, learning and growing: willing to be taught. The why part of all this is called Life: wonderful-awe-inspired-get-to-live-this-crazy-adventure Life! It is a thrill to get up in the morning and know, that another day awaits for me to discover... to discover! I am evolving, changing, being moulded and shaped. and my character is developing: I have some desire, which leads me to telling you what my newest favourite watchable on Netflix series is...
Agents of good
Life in Pieces. We fall to pieces; we put the pieces back together again; we become fragmented and reconnected and, at the risk of a run on sentence, the bits and pieces of who we are is really this marvellous collage of all the characters we have encountered, run away from, drawn near to, lived with, loved, moved away from, collided with, and bounced off of and lastly, fallen into. We are a mix and match of each other, picking up the pieces of our own lives while hopefully being agents of good in the lives of others.
Life in pieces
Life in Pieces is a composite of characters; people whose traits I would like to develop in my own life. Emotionally speaking, this show is the me of now, and the me I want to live into as this New Year begins. I can add and subtract traits dear one, as I develop my own character: and so can you!
Follow these steps
1. I challenge you to take an inventory, or lack thereof, of your character traits. It is okay dear one, sometimes we must be cruel to ourselves to ultimately be kind: you have heard the expression, honesty is the best policy, right? You have some wonderful and not so wonderful traits, take the time to figure them out
2. Write out the traits you admire in others and long to possess
3. Find someone, or many someones, that have these traits, and copy them for goodness sakes! We learn by example and through practice. This is true in the physical and emotional realms
4. Ask yourself some questions: What is thematic in my life? Does the theme reflect what I desire? Does it mirror what I admire?
5. This last step is up to you dear one... I don't want to take you too far up the ladder I have in front of me, you have your own to climb! You get to figure out step 5!
Suggestion
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| Land on soulfully solid ground |
My hope, is that you do too.
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