There's a
conversation
we all have (some of us have it ongoingly, some of us had it once and
maybe never again) when the
moment
is right, when it's OK to let down our guard, when our concern about
being vulnerable and expressing what we reallywonder
about in our
quiet
introspections, isn't
present.
It's a kind of
conversation
which may
happen
in the cool of a late night,
sitting
around an
open
fire, sipping
wine
with people we
love.
But it is not
limited to that scenario. In this quintessential
conversation,
wherever and whenever it occurs, we ("we" is you and I and all mankind
throughout
history)
ask ourselves "What's the point of it all?". That defines it.
with
Alexandra
- Since I Don't Have You (The Skyliners)
Now there are various
answers
to this
question.
One
answer
is there's no point to it at all other
than whatever point we assign to it. That's really
beautiful.
And
clearly
there's a lot of
already always
listening
to drill through for all of us before that
answer
can be really heard (it's not an
answer
for the
faint-hearted).
Another
answer
is the point of it all is to survive. This is an
answer
which has a huge number of subscribers. Yet another
answer
is the point of it all is to
succeed,
to be
successful
("to
succeed"
of course is just a more applied,
sophisticated
version of the under-pinning, visceral "to survive"). And yet
another
answer
is the point of it all is realizing
God
and having a
personalrelationship
with
God.
This is an
answer
which also has very
big
numbers of adherents.
I've
got
another possible
answer.
No, it's not the rightanswer
(listen:
I have no idea what the
rightanswer
is - not for myself, not for you, not for anyone). It is just
another possibleanswer.
It is this: the point of it all is to be
complete.
That is it. There's an opportunity in life to be
complete.
It's an opportunity to be
complete
with myself. It is an opportunity to be
complete
with the people in my life. It is the opportunity to be
complete
with
humanity.
It is the opportunity to be
complete
with
Life itself.
It is the opportunity to express being
complete.
In other
words,
what I'm proposing here is there's no point to it at all other than
whatever point(s) we assign to it (I really want you
to
get
that - it's
transformational),
so if I'm going to assign any point to it, then I say the point of
it all is to be
complete,
and to express being
complete.
That is all. And it's
good enough for jazz.
So
why
would we express being
complete
at all? I mean
why
would we bother? If you're asking that
question,
you're unclear on the concept. The idea of expressing being
complete
isn't excerpted from a well-thought out strategy or a plan or a reason.
Rather it comes from the experience of being
complete
itself. You express being
complete
because being
completecalls you to express being
complete.
Fulfillment is a function of experiencing being
complete
and allowing being
complete
to express itself. To express being
complete
with the people in your life, is fulfilling. To express being
complete
with your own
family
(and in their own homes) is truly profound.