things i love thursday (11)

As I mentioned back on that very first “things i love thursday” in January, this project is all about my year of mindfulness – the idea being that by remembering the little things that have made me happy each week it will make me more aware of those little things as they happen, drawing me into the present moment.

I’ve also mentioned before that my favourite film is You, Me & Dupree.  Aside from it being hilarious and starring Owen Wilson (*sigh*) it has a little soliloquy given by Wilson’s character, Randolph Dupree, that always reminds me how easy it can be to live in the present moment.  I’ve read a lot of books about mindfulness but nothing has quite spoken to me like Dupree – which probably  shows that I am a yogini of very little brain.

For those of you who haven’t seen the film, Dupree is a little bit of a dropout, hasn’t really worked out what he wants from life.  After a series of misunderstandings, Dupree has to give a talk at a primary school careers day, despite not having a job of any sort.  For today’s things i love thursday I give you that talk!

Hey, how are you? First of all, thank you for giving me the opportunity to come talk to you all on career day. Now, I’m not Mr. Carl Peterson and I don’t have a career per se. I guess you could say my career is living and loving and I do that to the utmost.

I see all you fresh faced “kidlets” sitting there in your neat little rows and you’re all just pods. Pods waiting for your instructions. Now some of you are gonna get zapped right away and be 15 year old prodigies, little midget Olympic gymnasts with their pictures on cereal boxes. Some of you will go on to college and you will find your rhythm there and then go chase down the titans of industry or maybe straighten out our problems at the UN.

But some of you…and this is the group that no one ever comes into career day and addresses, and it’s criminal (not too)…some of you, are just going to float along.–Eating spicy foods, humming black people’s music into your thirties—well into your thirties….languishing. This group of pods is going to do a lot of languishing and you’re going to take some heat for it…sadly, you will. Europe is a little easier, it seemed to understand a little better, so did South America. I went to Argentina one time and everyone just seemed to be sitting around and it was beautiful.

But that’s ok! Stay loose, stay liquid, laugh a lot–but be ready! That’s what Dupree is doing in his life’s little pod–staying nimble, until I get the call from the mothership. Then I bite. Then you’ll see Dupree coming in here throwing seven different kinds of smoke. Boom, bam!

(dedicated to everyone like me, who has never really worked out the life they want to live!)

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