By Michael Claridge On October 20, 2009No Comments
Now this is an amazing creation. I have watched this more than a dozen times and it never gets old. Fast forward to a day when all city skylines are layered with amazing visuals like this.
I applaud NuFormer Digital media and their high-skilled 3D video mapping projections. These 3D projections can be custom-made to fit any specific building by a battery of powerful projectors that display amazing 3d video.
Why do we get so dang reactive when it comes to our relationships? I mean, why do we always think that we are right and defend ourselves at any cost?
It goes like this:
I was looking for an air mattress last night that my sister-in-law asked to borrow. I looked high and low. When I asked my oldest son, who what watching television, he snapped at me. That irritated me. I then asked my youngest son, who pretty much ignored me and went on about his business.
I knew that one of them knew where it was and I knew that I hadn’t pressed hard enough. So I started on a rampage through the house, closets, and storage. The longer it took the more irritable I became.
I attempted to ask the boys one more time and got the same, if not worse, response then the first time.
I got angrier, and more frustrated. When I finally found it, it was sandwiched between two large bags that my youngest son had stacked on top of each other several weeks ago when he was looking for something.
I blew a gasket. I knew that one of them knew where it was. I was so angry. I came in with both barrels loaded and was spitting fire.
My youngest son’s response was, “Why are you getting mad at me?” It went downhill from there.
The more I pressed my anger the more defensive he got. I was right and he was wrong. He should have told me. He should have helped me look for it. He should have been more sympathetic to my needs. I was right and he was wrong.
Slow down Hoss. Get off your high horse and take a step back.
Neither of my boys had my same agenda at that moment. Each of them was doing their own thing at the moment. People forget. Two weeks earlier when my youngest had moved the air mattress his focus wasn’t on the air mattress it was on something else.
But I turned it into WWIII. I was right and justified to boot. And I was going to get justice. I was going to be vindicated.
Whoa boy… slow down there. Sounds to me that you were being reactive; plain and simple.
That is exactly what it was. I was behaving like a horribly reactive jerk.
Let me help you break this down. I was creating. You get that don’t you? You can see that what I was creating was a mess? I was tearing down the relationship I have with my sons.
We are always creating. You cannot not create.
So what should I have done? What should a Creator do?
Creators recognize that they are always creating, and that being reactive almost always creates a mess, or almost always creates creations of distrust, disharmony, anger, frustration, and destruction.
Since Creators realize that they have the power to create valuable and important creations instead of choosing to react they choose to create.
I could have created a happy environment. I could have bribed my sons. I could have created a game of it, a competition. I could have created a teaching moment. I could have helped my sons with what they were doing and then have them help me.
Bottom line is …
I could have created an experience that strengthened our relationship. Instead I created a mess.
I have been working on getting a place to produce some videos. After a few months of playing with different softwares, different microphones, and lighting I think I am finally ready to produce a video.
It’s not perfect yet, but it is a good start. I hope to be making many more in the future that deal with everything under the sun that has to do with creator and their creations.
Please enjoy. And if you don’t mind, please leave me some comments on what you like, don’t like, and what I can do to improve them.
I think that everyone goes through hard times at some time in their life. I’ve had my share of hard times. I’ve been divorced, I know what poverty is, I flunked out of college, and had a heckuva time raising my boys.
All in all it’s been a good ride, but I can assure you I have had my share of hard times.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining. Have you ever seen the Disney movie Aladdin? Aladdin says to the evil genie, “You can’t kill me.” In which the evil genie says, “You’re right, but you’d be amazed what you can live through.”
One of my favorite sayings is, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”
I found this poem the other day, I couldn’t find the author. At any rate, this wonderful poem about this law of life.
The Law Of Life
The tree that never had to fight
For sun and sky and air and light,
That stood out in the open plain
And always got its share of rain,
Never became a forest king,
But lived and died a scrubby thing.
The man who never had to toil
Who never had to win his share
Of sun sky and light and air,
Never became a manly man,
But lived and died as he began.
Good timber does not grow in ease.
The stronger wind, the tougher trees,
The farther sky, the greater length,
The more the storm, the more the strength,
By sun and cold, by rain and snows,
In tree or man, good timber grows.
We live in a society that almost expects everything to be easy, to be instantaneous, and require very little effort. You’ve probably heard the saying, no pain no gain.
Why is it that we all want to take the easy route? We want life to be convenient, and if it’s not easy it’s not worth it. But the truth of the matter is, if it is easy it won’t stretch us, it won’t require that we use our talents, we would get lazy, lethargic, and whatever it is that we are doing most likely won’t be worth it any ways.
I read an article once were a multimillionaire was asked what his secret to success was. He responded that every day he did things that other people didn’t want to do. Most people don’t want to do the hard things, the things that require effort, or the things that aren’t convenient.
Is it really that simple? Is the difference between success and not simply doing things that are hard?
That is your assignment today – I want you to give that some thought. Are you good timber?
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