What does resistance look like? It's such a slippery character - it can make itself look like busyiness. It can make itself disappear into your future and reappear in your past - it can morph into one long series of well intentioned excuses. Resistance is like the man on the stair who isn't there. He isn't there again today...and... he will never go away.
Any parent, teacher, volunteer group leader knows how hard it is to get someone else to do something - even something that will be positive...unless it's sugar coated, pleasure dripping, high releasing or mind numbing, it seems we are all of us reluctant to do stuff.
Yet in our better moments of awareness - we all know the gentle sense of disappointment that we didn't (whatever) - we all know the nonsense of filling every waking hour only to find the things we spend our long hours on amount to, frankly, nothing.
We all know we can't, nor want to be the next Nelson Mandela. We all know Bill Clinton is a one-off. Simon Cowell is not run of the mill. We know the poets and the artists are special creatures. Sure we are talented and we are better than some...but do we really have 'the right stuff'?
Well the truth is no one will ever know - unless we get up and get focused on the right stuff.
Commit today to telephone / email / tweet / walk up to someone who can make you do what you want to do. Someone loving and thoughtful who can push you and goad you and tempt you and harrass you to make the change you know you want to.
It's not OK to leave it until tomorrow. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...
Stop reading, make that connection, we can't wait for all the good guys to let those other twits make a mockery of our world and our societies. We need you to stand up for what you know to be true and to make yourself heard. Time runs on.
There - I've said it.
