To bee or not to bee
“According to all known laws of aviation, there’s no way a bee should be able to fly. Its’ wings are too small to lift its’ fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway – because bees don’t care what humans think is impossible.”
The opening words of Bee Movie – a great film and a great thought….are there things we do that we’re not ‘supposed’ to do, that to all intents and purposes seem impossible?
There are many times when I think that human beings are amazing – sometimes even that I am amazing! I know – “how vain” but it’s true – to be able to take on the things we do every day, to be able to face adversity sometimes and come through, to be able to laugh at those seemingly insignificant moments in life, like when we catch someone singing their heads off in the car, or tripping over and then recovering like it never happened.
The Bee Movie is all about breaking the mould, being able to step out and be different to the norm – to what people say we should be and should be able to do. The main character is desperate to have some excitement in his life – he doesn’t want to do the same job all his life (as short as that life is for bees). I’ve recently got involved in a job club and it’s really made me consider the times we’re in at the moment. There seem to be no secure jobs anymore – people who’ve never written CVs or had interviews as they went straight from school to a ‘job for life’ then at 50+ with no job and seemingly no prospect of a job.
Whether you’re in that position of wanting a secure, reliable job or indeed wanting to do something different the point of the Bee Movie still applies. You can do what seems impossible but a new way of thinking will be needed. May be this is the time to do what you’ve always longed to do? A friend asked a question this week to the facebook world – “do I choice meaningful, profitable or fun?” a great question and one which we could all do with thinking about.
So what have you been told you could never do? How do you feel about that now? Could this be the time to test that theory – ignore what they say and go for the impossible.
