Our Secret Lives When We Zone Out

        Who doesn't zone out? Sometimes I just want to slap myself. Yesterday I thoroughly organized my stuff in those attempts to start 2014 with everything important in the right place. I've found many things I thought I had lost, others I'd completely forgotten, others that made me laugh at myself and understand why some stuff didn't work out the way I had planned, others that make me just proud of some choices I've taken, even the failed ones. One thing that I've found was a monologue I wrote back in 2011 which started more or less like this "Sometimes I wish I could stop thinking, to be still inside, at peace".  Later on I went to the cinema to watch "The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty" and I immediately related to this lovely character performed amazingly by Ben Stiller. This is probably the best of his career. Walter Mitty lives automatically like many of us, in his 9-5 job, controlled by this bullying boss and some work partners, and frequently zones out , tuning himself into his imagination, into a confident person who lives an exciting and adventurous life. Zoning out is an amazing survival technique in some toxic environments and boring life moments. It is important to our imagination and creativity. How many times I found my mind working, round and round in circles trying to solve something and suddenly, after deciding to stop thinking about it, the answer comes up out of the blue, when I am  doing something else. At the same time, I believe that we should force ourselves to stop zoning out  and be courageous to face the truth,especially when we seem to be much more confident, talkative, with a good level of self-esteem and success in our parallel life rather than here and now, in our present life.

 

"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown"