Week 2

http://changethis.com/manifesto/show/51.01.YourHowl

People may think being a creative person is not easy; after all, many of us stick with almost the exactly same daily routine, follow the general rules and there is no need and space for us to change or to be different, or creative. Then, we gradually lose our ability to try something new in different aspects. I guess, Flaum wants to use the story to evoke our internal authentical howl.  Just as in the story, Mumon has to learn what he thought he couldn’t do by sacrificing other things. For us, the internal authentical howl maybe is the creative ability. We have to re-learn the creative ability we are gifted to have but we lost in the middle of way since we believe we can’t do, then, we lost the ability of can-do.

Later, Flaum talked about his childhood classmate’s tiger story, which suggests the way how we, common people, feel about life in this real world. The tiger in the cage of the zoo can never escape from the cage. When the story applies to real world,  There are “us” who create the cage to imprison ourselves in different ways, because the cages gradually become part of us, so that the cages prevent us doing tons of things we used to be able to do. It makes sense because this is how we’re limited, trapped by ourselves. In order to break these, I agree with Flaum, we have to dig deeply to the ground of how and why these “cages” are built, which is sort of digging how we gradually have our different ideologies to prevent, or obstacle, our abilities.

I guess most of times, we didn’t even realized we are in the cages because this is the way how we live all the time. Flaum’s article is a alarm to me wake up my consciousness of my own “cage”.

Work like you don't need the money.

Love like you've never been hurt.

Dance like no one's watching.

Sing like no one's listening.

Live like there's no tomorrow.

Fear like a stone.

This is more like a poem, but each individual line is so impressive to me at the very first time I heard about it. How many of us are working just because we need the paycheck? How many of us afraid to start a new relationship just because we were hurt in the past? How many of us hate dancing just because we scary about people’s judgments toward our shape or movements? How many of us stop singing because we pay attention on other people’s opinions toward us?

Thinking carefully, there are more things we don’t do because all kinds of excuses. But this poem gives us an answer of the root of why we are not doing thing correctly, the fear. This fear forms a cage for us and become part of us so that we even have such fear exists in our own worlds. Hopefully, this poem can encourage more people to pursue their goals without fearing too much. 


my audio link
http://www.podsnack.com/playlists/f565a7d4fe986089a7c2110c7a501143