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August 2, 2024,
As far as questions go, it is probably one most of us will never know the answer to.
Even though we ask it often. In private when things are not going well. In public while eating dinner with friends. When we are passionate about our goals or pursuits.
Why are we here?
In the much larger picture, in terms of a creator, who knows? We sure don’t.
So, the real question is how you frame your purpose and pursuit for being here. Is this the perfect time period to accomplish what you want? Are your circumstances ideal for want you desire? Do you have the right support to further your goals?
In an ideal world, the answer to those questions would probably be yes.
But do we live in an ideal world? Not if you watch or read the news.
All said and done, even if it is not ideal, we have to fight to make it so and if you decide to do that against a sea of challenges, that will take great courage.
Having the courage to do what has not been done before. Possibly around the world, in this time period or any other.
Courage or valor is the choice and willingness to confront agony, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. Valor is courage or bravery.
That is a lot to confront, and yet, before television, the Internet and new technology, there were courageous and brave people who took incredible risks.
Walk with us to the bookstore.
Courage Is Calling Hardcover – September 28, 2021
By Kiligry (Contributor)
Fortune favours the bold. All great leaders of history have known this, and were successful because of the risks they dared to take. But today so many of us are paralysed by fear.
Drawing on ancient Stoic wisdom and examples across history and around the world, Ryan Holiday shows why courage is so important, and how to cultivate it in our own lives. Courage is not simply physical bravery but also doing the right thing and standing up for what you believe; it’s creativity, generosity and perseverance. And it is the only way to live an extraordinary, fulfilled and effective life.”
So true. Do you want an extraordinary life?
Let’s turn to film.
1492: Conquest of Paradise is a 1992 epic historical drama film directed and produced by Ridley Scott, written by Roselyne Bosch and starring Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, and Sigourney Weaver.
It portrays a version of the travels to the New World by the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and the effect this had on indigenous peoples.
The film was released to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ voyage.
There are many story lines to Columbus. Here was their take.
Aware that the world is round, Christopher Columbus lobbies for a trip westward to Asia, but lacks a crew and ship.
The Catholic theologians at the University of Salamanca heavily disapprove of Columbus’s plan, not being keen on ideas that go against the writings of Ptolemaeus.
Who is Ptolemaeus?
Claudius Ptolemy was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science.
Based upon observations he made with his naked eye, Ptolemy saw the Universe as a set of nested, transparent spheres, with Earth in the center.
Understand this, he surmised that the Moon, Mercury, Venus, and the Sun all revolved around Earth.
His work has come to symbolize a very complex theoretical model built in order to explain a false assumption.
In that time period, that was a lot for Columbus to go against.
Columbus is approached by Martín Pinzón, a ship owner from Palos, who introduces him to the banker Santángel, to whom Queen Isabella I owes money. Columbus meets with the queen, who grants him his journey in exchange for his promise to bring back sufficient amounts of riches in gold.
Columbus sailed into the unknown with no guarantees of anything.
What incredible courage.
We sense, whatever you are passionate about in bringing your vision to the world, it will take an exceptional amount of courage and incredible risk.
Let’s stay with film but move up the timeline.
Shane is a 1953 American Technicolor Western film starring Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, and Van Heflin. Released by Paramount Pictures, the film is noted for its landscape cinematography, editing, performances, and contributions to the genre.
The picture was produced and directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by A. B. Guthrie Jr., based on the 1949 novel of the same name by Jack Schaefer.
Its Oscar-winning cinematography was by Loyal Griggs.
In 1993, the film was selected for preservation in the United States’ National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
Now for the storyline.
Shane, a laconic but skilled gunfighter with a mysterious past, rides into an isolated valley in the sparsely settled Wyoming Territory in 1889.
A drifter, he is hired as a farmhand by hardscrabble rancher Joe Starrett, who is homesteading with his wife, Marian, and their young son, Joey.
Mr. Starrett tells Shane that a war of intimidation is being waged on the valley’s settlers. Though they have claimed their land legally under the Homestead Acts, a ruthless cattle baron, Rufus Ryker, has hired various rogues and henchmen to harass them and force them out of the valley.
Very intimidating and eventually deadly to the settlers.
Shane has no previous connection to them.
Shane has no obligation to them.
And yet, at great peril to himself, Shane stood up for them. Courageously. And successfully.
In our minds, this is one of the greatest westerns of all time.
When it comes to your life and ours, always understand that in order to attempt what has never been done before, but in your mind, needs to be done, you will most likely have major obstacles.
There is a reason why it has rarely or never been done before. Having said that, you have to keep going anyway.
It comes down to why in the world do you think you are here on the earth? If you understand how you frame and define yourself within that realm, it will make it more imperative to go forward.
Do it. Before it is too late.
Find your courage now.
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