This is a statement that came from a man who talked a pilot who went blind during a solo flight down down to safety.
Because we have seen this repeated in so many stories in the movies, I doubt it’s impact will fully register on people. It’s no longer the fiction of some action thriller, but rather, for the first time that I have ever heard of, one of the most complicated and delicate tasks has actually been accomplished by two men, one of which, couldn’t see a thing.
It seems to me to be a message to all of us.
It is the second such message that I have received in the past week.
The world has been absolutely flying through this passage of time at high velocity. The rate of change has increased to a level which in my humble opinion is wholly unhealthy for the residents of planet earth. What’s more, is that we are flying blind.
The United States has just rallied around a collective statement that “Change” is what we want more than anything else. In the week after the presidential election, we are all left wondering about what that really means, as the echoes of our voices have left the air and reverberate in our hearts and minds.
It seems to me that although we can’t really agree at this point on what it is that we all want collectively, it is readily apparent that none of us have been happy with the way things have been going.
We just NEED.....”to get there”. We are TRYING to “get there”, we have shown the courage and the HEART to “get there”, but now I think we are being given a series of messages that we all just need to settle down a bit.
As any serious flyer will tell you, there IS such a thing as “going too fast”.
Speed is a strange relative thing. The faster we go, the more we want to go faster. Often we have the ability to move faster than we should. Our ability to go fast usually is developed long before our ability to develop solid navigation control. At slower relative speeds, we can get away with this. Our overall speed in our relative progress is still slow enough to allow for some errors. We are moving along at a good “clip” now however, and we can no longer afford the sophomoric tendencies of humanity's adolescence without putting ourselves at genuine risk.
It is my judgment that we need to seriously consider if not applying a touch of the brakes here, that we should at very least consider letting off the thottle for a while. At least until we can gain a complete understanding of what our “flight characteristics” ARE, at this new speed. I advise that we might consider doing what to many would appear to be the unthinkable.
I suggest that we as the human race reach backwards in time to many of the values of the 50’s and INTEGRATE them with our new value set from our current time.
Let there be Honor, Justice, Freedom, Liberty, Sensitivity, Integrity, Opportunity, and Happiness............for ALL.
It is time for those of us who have been carrying the load to rest a while.
It is time for those of us who have been resting to carry the load.
It is time for us to target and destroy FEAR. It is time for us to LIGHTEN UP.
It is time for us to BELIEVE IN EACH OTHER.
It is time for us to extend our hand to those around us and pull them UP.
It is time for us to Dance.
It is time for us to be aware enough so that when the Divine tells us,
“Now, make a GENTLE, RIGHT-hand, Turn”..............that we are LISTENING.
