The news of Michael Jackson and Farah Fawcett’s passing yesterday only added to the list of friends and acquaintances far and wide who have left this earthly plane over the past 6 months. Most of them have exited earlier than planned, many unexpectedly. All left sadness, shock and fear in their wake.
Michael was 50, Farah was 62. I remember when those numbers seemed ancient. Not so anymore. It sure makes me think about my own mortality and about my life right here and now. I read a tweet (yes, I’m an avid tweeter) that said something along the lines of, “If our lives will flash before us when we leave this earth – is yours worth watching?”
So… I mentally reviewed my life. It needs a lot of editing but, for the most part I feel pretty good about what I saw. I figure that what leaves room for more color, adventure, love and good fortune is my direction from here on in, starting now.
I know that I am the director of the movie of MY LIFE and also that I am the star, casting director, camera, crew and sound person(s). I may want to enlist the services of some stellar talent to amp it up a notch but it’s my script. I already have an ending in mind that blows my socks off, warms my heart and sticks in my mind for days, leaving me feeling transcendent and luminous. It’s Academy Award or Palme D’Or material and a star on the Hollywood walk of Fame would be nice.
No one else can play me like I can and the same is true of all of us. It’s no mistake that we are the stars of our own movies. If we find ourselves cast in roles that leave us feeling like we are extras hiding in the shadows, or playing the part of a victim or a cold-hearted character, who’s casting this film anyway? We are – you, me. So what’s with that? Why would you cast yourself in the role of the wronged woman or the guy who doesn’t get the promotion or the anti-hero who watches everyone else have fun while they gaze through a fogged up window.
We can all recast ourselves, shed the layers of out-dated costumes and cliched lines we’ve all heard before, and emerge as OURSELVES in capital letters in neon – our best, truest, most authentic selves. It is absolutely possible to change ourselves from the inside out and, as Wayne Dyer says in his new book Excuses Begone!,
“Every self-limiting thought that you employ to explain why you’re not living life to the absolute fullest – so you’re feeling purposful, content, and fully alive – is something you can challenge and reverse, regardless of how long you’ve held that belief and no matter how rooted in tradition, science, or life experience it may be.”
Once we accept total responsibility for our lives and give thanks to everything that has and is happening for what it has taught us, and is, at this very moment, revealing – and once we decide to plug into source energy, God, the higher power from which we were created and which is accessible to us at all times, our movies will really start to grab us. The parts we play, the people who we cast to be in it with us, the scenery, music, lights, action will be unbeatable and totally US – Me -You. I’m smiling just thinking of it. We’ll all be parading and celebrating and honoring the creative source that brings everything to life. We’ll not only be surviving, but thriving.
I love the twists and turns, the suspense, the mystery, the slow sensual scenes and well… I’m not giving it away. I’m living it and I hope that you will try on this idea of Your Life, Your Movie.
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