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It was late New Year’s day and I decided to take a long walk or what would be called an actual hike. As I was hiking, that particular Tuesday, I realized that the week was just about over as far as any big working projects developing. My first big project work wise would be next Monday, January 7th. I hadn’t formed any particular New Year’s resolutions. The closest resolution seems to have landed in the realm not drinking high calorie juices as if it were water. This isn’t exactly an earth shattering post modern state of the art idea however. It would be nice to set higher goals as well and see if they can be achieved. However, when you are dealing with projects that contain any number of variables, a lot of which are unseen and it varying degrees beyond control, it is hard to write out that exact calling card for the future and just follow it. Then I thought, instead of steaming ahead, let me see how initial project for the first Monday of the New Year goes and get to that and then go from there. Then as I was hiking, I said to myself, why don’t I use this logic a bit more. Get this idea or that situation going, and then go from there. It might be in some cases just making a phone call, and instead of trying to figure out the longer term ramifications of every first move on the chess board, why not just make that first move and then go from there. Maybe this would be like a crossing a mysterious pond, needing to jump from rock to rock but that second rock can only be reached from the first rock. Maybe just get the first one and then go from there. At least try to find some initial crossing to what you want. As I hiked longer and added to the miles of this little sojourn, thoughts drifted to other things. Then really independently of this prior thought, images from the now ten year old movie the Titanic came to me. The picture of Rose as she was on the boat back to New York city, chilled by the rain but also chilled by the haunting experiences she had just gone through and how her dreams of a lifetime also sunk in the tragedy. The theme song of the movie by Celine Dione was that her heart would go on. In terms of who and what she cared about, she was now a sole survivor. She was facing an unknown journey without all the love and support that would have been there if things had turned out differently. But she would go on. Her hardiness was apparent even in the face of her deep loss. This movie was a tremendous movie that many people saw as going into the range of 20 times in the theatre. And of course it was very dramatic. But I was able to tie the images that came of this movie with the earlier thought of just get to base one sometimes and then go from there. It might indeed be for some that a lot was lost in the past year or years, along the lines of individual hopes and dreams. But there is the residing hope of being able to go on, as depicted in this great movie by the character of Rose. Then lots of us might not have had all that much trouble, but we are still caught in tides of uncertainty, and despite whatever entrapments that we can obtain, everything seems to come with the attachment of uncertainty. Maybe we can see more if we can just get there and go from there, rather than just staying right here. Look at something like the space program. If we had gone to Mars in the realm of manned flight, we could from there be now talking about doing something more than that more easily than now, as we have not gone further than the initial flights to the moon now something that is a generation removed from our sights. It might not be in big and dramatic ways but just sometimes in small ways that we need to go on. There is that restless place between then and now, where hope and strength can still emerge in finding a future home where some dreams can still reside.
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