As we get closer to the holiday and the end of another year, I think to myself all the things that have happened in the past year, and what we should be all thankful for. I don’t think that we get the time necessarily as people to consider what we have and what we have worked towards. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why we always are seeking the next goal or objective, because we don’t have the talents or skills in place as ordinary people to look at things in terms of the here and now. What is it that we typically hear from the enlightened ones–that is to not know what is in your future, but to know what is in your past and present. It’s sort of this idea of self-actualization that leads to a better understanding of yourself, and ultimately can enable someone to progress forward.

I think this past year has been a year of challenges and growth. I look at myself and the people around me, and I see that there are some that have fallen behind, some that have excelled forward, and others still who have remained where they are in terms of growth and over-all wellbeing. We use the term wellbeing and we automatically assume that this means a health related wellbeing, something that can be measured through your temperature, or observed through a microscope, but instead wellbeing is more of a general state of things. It is to say that there is balance in what you do, where the various pulls within your life are not disproportionately distributed, but instead are in a balanced state that would be nicely visualized via a ying-yang symbol.

Symbols have for a long time represented what we feel or want to mean, but do not seem to have the words to describe it. In actuality, I think that as robust that our language is, we are still not at a point where we can fully describe in words what we feel. Perhaps this is why we are still battling the seemingless never-ending challenges of coding artificial intelligence. If we can’t adequately describe things in the real-world, who’s to say that we have the facilities to be able to do so virtually or in a way that will bring life to something that was created from nothing. When we talk about symbols, we look at things like the heart, or symbols of a crucifix, these are universally representative of things that we feel or believe, but do not have a complex explaination behind them. To each the symbols can mean and represent themselves as different things, and ultimately their meaning and the way that they impact our lives will also be different.

So to this end, I must say that I am fully geared up and ready to go to the first screening of National Treasure: Book of Secrets! I know, that long philosophical debate, and how can I lead up to a movie! In all actuality, I find myself being drawn to movies like this, because it doesn’t try to explain something to it’s fullest or make you believe that what they are showing you is true, but instead the idea or the thought that something larger, bigger, or more complex than what we are use to exists out there in the world today, and we probably walk by it 100 times a day and never realized it’s existence.

To finally to end this post, I do want to say, that my first drafts of my book will soon be available in bits and pieces as I work to complete it. I find myself in a state where I don’t know what to take on as a new life challenge, but I have always been drawn to the idea that writing something, creating something that others find engaging or interesting, would always be something that I am interested in, so we will see where this takes us!