Monday, February 18, 2008

Has it Happened?

"Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail Better." -Samuel Beckett

This blog was designed for examining experiences people have all over the World. What happened? Who was involved? What choices did you make and how did that choice affect your life and the lives of the people involved? After making that choice, how do you feel about it? Most importantly what did you learn?

We go through our lives: day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute, second by second. Rarely do we stop and reflect on our own experiences. It seems that most people would rather spend time focusing on other peoples lives (i.e. the news and the influence of all media). Why? Because if we focus on other people’s lives and the problems they experience, we do not have to take a good look at ourselves and our lives will remain the same. This saddens me, because it is in those dark moments of creation and the changes we make to ourselves, that we can learn what life has to teach us.

Tell me about a particular life experience and how you reflect back upon it now. Let me know what it was that made you think more about this experience than any other before it. Did you fail, or did you succeed? What matters most is not the outcome, rather, the importance lives in how you feel about the experience itself. Dive down into the essence of life, when you come back up for air perhaps you will be a different person; a person that is aware that "truth is, at best, a partially told story"?