I never cared much for art. Art of any type really – I found it intimidating. I could appreciate something beautiful as much as the next guy, but I always felt like the ability to create something original was beyond me. To be artistic, you have to put yourself out there in a way that made me uncomfortable. I always preferred the safety of scientific equations. You can’t really go wrong with an equation.
There’s a part in “ps I love you” where Holly is talking about this very concept…but with a slightly more positive perspective
“All I know is, if you don't figure out this something, you'll just stay ordinary, and it doesn't matter if it’s a work of art or a taco, or a pair of socks! Just create something... new, and there it is, and its you, out in the world, out side of you and you can look at it, or hear it, or read it, or feel it... and you know a little more about... you. A little bit more than anyone else does...”
Up until about the age of 23 (the point at which I graduated from University, making it a convenient age to remember), I wasn’t much of a risk taker. I made every logical, responsible decision that was out there to be made. On the “straight and narrow” so to speak. Such thinking didn’t allow for too much creative expression.
Then school ended and I realized there was no longer a pre-destined straight and narrow direction for me to follow. I suppose that is probably what sparked this whole world is your oyster mentality that has fueled so many of my major life decisions. The beginning of the era of taking risks.
In the same way that taking the safe path has a fairly high probability of producing a potentially positive (but very finite) outcome; risk taking, in its essence, has no guarantee of producing positive results. The incredible part comes in the unknown. Without taking the chance, we can have no comprehension about the potential for something amazing.
I think that it is the same with God.
We can choose to do things our way. The safe way. The logical way.
Or we can decide that the potential for absolute inconceivable blessings are worth the risk of following God. We can decide that whatever he has planned for us is going to be undeniably superior to what we could plan for ourselves.
There’s a part in “ps I love you” where Holly is talking about this very concept…but with a slightly more positive perspective
“All I know is, if you don't figure out this something, you'll just stay ordinary, and it doesn't matter if it’s a work of art or a taco, or a pair of socks! Just create something... new, and there it is, and its you, out in the world, out side of you and you can look at it, or hear it, or read it, or feel it... and you know a little more about... you. A little bit more than anyone else does...”
Up until about the age of 23 (the point at which I graduated from University, making it a convenient age to remember), I wasn’t much of a risk taker. I made every logical, responsible decision that was out there to be made. On the “straight and narrow” so to speak. Such thinking didn’t allow for too much creative expression.
Then school ended and I realized there was no longer a pre-destined straight and narrow direction for me to follow. I suppose that is probably what sparked this whole world is your oyster mentality that has fueled so many of my major life decisions. The beginning of the era of taking risks.
In the same way that taking the safe path has a fairly high probability of producing a potentially positive (but very finite) outcome; risk taking, in its essence, has no guarantee of producing positive results. The incredible part comes in the unknown. Without taking the chance, we can have no comprehension about the potential for something amazing.
I think that it is the same with God.
We can choose to do things our way. The safe way. The logical way.
Or we can decide that the potential for absolute inconceivable blessings are worth the risk of following God. We can decide that whatever he has planned for us is going to be undeniably superior to what we could plan for ourselves.