What scares you?
Plenty of people love to be scared. They watch horror films and, especially this time of year, they seek out haunted houses and delight in being frightened by ghosts, ghouls and zombies.
It’s all fun…when it’s all fun.
Of course, I’m talking about that kind of fear that makes you jump and possibly even scream when you’re not actually in danger. It’s all pretend or it’s fiction you’re reading or watching on a movie screen.
What is my destiny? What is my purpose in life?
These are BIG questions that run through my mind from time to time. As I go through my life, I sometimes wonder if there isn’t something more I am “supposed” to be doing. Is there some important path in life that I have neglected, ignored or by-passed?
Maybe this is just a mid-life thing or perhaps people of all ages ask themselves similar questions.
The idea that there is some higher purpose or destiny in one’s life is present in movies, books, television shows and stories of real people’s experiences.
I recently read about one woman’s challenge to not look at herself in a mirror for a full year. Kjerstin Gruys, a sociologist, wants women to re-think body image and to question portrayals of women’s beauty in the media.
What made this challenge even more daunting is that Gruys planned and prepared for her own wedding during this year of no mirrors. Gruys and her fiance were married recently, by the way.
While I applaud the statement that Gruys is making with her year of no mirrors, I have to wonder…
Is the mirror really the problem after all?
My heart soars when I see video footage of the masses of people who are raising their voices and making their presence known on Wall Street in New York City.
For almost two weeks now, activists and regular folks, union members, airline pilots, celebrities and more have used non-violent resistance to occupy parts of New York City to call for systemic changes in our country’s financial and political systems.
