Your ball… January 9, 2009
Posted by Erik Tomblin in Choices, Emotion, Life, Psychology, Relationships.Tags: Epiphany, Forest Whitaker, Irony, Karma, Paulo Coelho, The Crying Game
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Remember that scene in The Crying Game when Fergus finally realizes Tinker’s big secret? He has that short daydream where Jody (Forest Whitaker) is standing there and gives a sly grin before sauntering off into the light? Well, Fergus is to me as Jody is to Karma. Then again, maybe Karma isn’t right, but I’m not sure there is a catchy, well-known term for “a life lesson you’re meant to learn.” I’ll call her Epiphany for now. And she’s always coming around with that sly grin, as if announcing “Think you got it figured out? Try this on for size.”
I’m not sure, but I believe I read in a book (by Paulo Coelho?) that throughout our lives we will be faced with certain situations until we learn what we’re supposed to. Don’t get it right the first time? You can be sure a similar scenario will make its way around until you listen to what Epiphany is trying to teach you. Reincarnationists believe in that, I think.
We all have our vices and personality disorders, bad feelings and negative thought patterns, and I’m sure that whatever higher being you believe in (even if it’s just yourself) would like to correct those things. Until then, at least for me, all I can really do is laugh right back at Epiphany, shrug my shoulders, and hope she realizes I’m doing my best to both improve myself and keep from dousing her with a bucket of rotten vegetables.
Still, I’ll give her props for her methods and sense of humor. I think she’s been having drinks with Irony after work.
Ahh dear friend…life is a lesson maker and taker and we are all destined for something better, larger, more important than anything we have just achieved. If we didn’t fail, fall short, cry, try, plan,and grow , we receded and stop blooming. It could just be winter’s malaise. Hang in there – keep growing. Epiphany is a bitch most of the time.
Heh. I don’t think it’s so much malaise as it is a surrender to the unstoppable force that Epiphany seems to be. But yeah, life has a way of either making you better by force or choice.