by Pamela Ziemann
Monday morning. I wake up from a deep, peaceful sleep, and the logistics of the day slowly start coming to mind. That’s when I remember—I have a speech to give Tuesday night. That’s tomorrow night, and all I have so far is the “Ladies and Gentlemen” part and a vague idea of what I want to speak about.
I scramble through my morning routine and jump in the car. As I am driving to the library, I feel the anxiety rising. I need information and I need it fast! I take the steps three at a time and quickly find the aisle I need. There’s a little relief as my eyes fix on titles of books that are all related to my topic. I pull them out one by one and say to myself, “Yes, this book looks good. This is what I need.” I say it over and over until there are eight books under my arm.
Just as I am about to leave and begin my reading marathon, another book catches my eye entitled A Whack On The Side Of The Head by Roger von Oech. I quickly thumb through it and discover that it is a book for teaching people how to be more creative.
“What?” my inner voice questions, “Me? I am creative! This isn’t a book I need.” But, just as I am putting the book back on the shelf a realization hits—a metaphoric whack on the side of my own head. I laugh as I look down at the stack of books in my arms. All I have are other people’s ideas. Lots of books on what other people have thought. Where is my own creativity? What do I feel about this subject? Isn’t that what people want? At this point, I realize what the speech is going to be.• • • •
We are living in the information age where it is easier than ever to obtain facts and figures on whatever we need. Most of what we hear people say is second-hand. They’re just repeating something they heard on the news or what someone else said. Albert Einstein once said, “Few is the number of those who think with their own minds and feel with their own hearts.”
How much of your life is spent with your own thoughts or your own feelings? An easy way to discover this is by writing down a few things you believe about subjects such as work, relationships, governments, or money.
The liberating thing about Avatar is that it doesn’t add another layer of what you “should” think or believe. It simply brings you back to who you are. Expressing your authentic self becomes an easy and natural thing to do. It is the gift you have to share with the rest of the world.Pamela Ziemann, Washington
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