The Lion with the Dapper Suit

Take off. The power that is generated to hurl a rocket into space and escape the gravity of the earth is phenomenal. It was always considered impossible, but it has now been done. Many times. Some say arrogance, some say inspiration. Who cares if the motivation for some pioneers of space flight was arrogance.  When I see a huge metal bullet packed full of jet fuel hurtling through the sky and away from the earth, I am so inspired. This thing that I am totally connected with, that I live and breathe each and every single day, is no longer a constant. It is no longer the only thing that I can understand and comprehend. In that, thee is immense power and untold clarity. They say that the fish is the last to understand the water that it swims in. That is because it has no reference for the context, and there is nothing to contrast it with. Thus it believes that the water is constant. Now I look to the sky, and it is not an untold story. It is now within my reach. And ...

That one thing. The one thought that inspires a life time, a new tangent that makes a person see the world in a different way, a moment that lasts a lifetime. For me, it was sitting in a movie theatre watching “The Beach”. The characters, dismayed with a 'normal life', took to travelling in South-east Asia, seeking ever more exotic and remote destinations. In the end, they sought what I also sought – a deeper understanding of myself, a choice of action rather than a well run routine that had been prescribed and administered by a faceless yet ever present force.  I walked into the theatre with tunnel vision, focused on the next party, the next pay rise, the next weekend. I walked out with a wider horizon, hungry to see what the world had to offer and conscious that the limitations in my life were somehow self imposed.  People were out there, hungry for something different, something untouched, something pure and principled. The taste of freedom, only a feeling, had whe...