This is not a bike film, well not as you'd expect it, I guess... And even though it's narrated by Alan Watts, a philosopher, the question it brings up is rather basic:
What if you weren't scared? Scared to give up the job you hate, scared to leave for a better place...
What if you could dream your whole life in one night and make changes the next day? Would you still be the same person when you wake up? Can a simple dream change your everyday life? "Free your mind and the rest will follow" is easier said than done, but it's worth thinking about it once in a while. Are you as good in postponing to the very last moment as I am? When it comes to life, your life, this moment might be too late to get epic shit done.
 | I wonder, I wonder, what you would do if you had the power to dream at night any dream you wanted to dream. And you would of course be able to alter your time sense, and slip seventy-five years of subjective time into eight hours of sleep. You would I suppose start out by fulfilling all your wishes. You could design for yourself what would be the most ecstatic life. And then after a couple of months of this sort of thing at seventy-five years a night, you'd be getting a little taste for something different, and you'd move over to an adventurous dimension, where there were certain dangers involved, and the thrill of dealing with dangers. And after you had done that for awhile, you'd think up a new wrinkle, to forget that you were dreaming, and think that is was all for real. - Alan Watts |
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I find that interpretation of Watts words (which he interpreted from somewhere else as he always admits) to be not going deep enough. Everyone is entitled to see what he wants in it but in my opinion... here I mean, I think I look deeper, my interpetaton is better, hence all interpetations are good and suck at the same time. - Watts is always about finding "yourself" and "who you really are". It is extremely blurry how to deal with self-improvement here. But if to confront what author of this vid wrote:"(...)Are you as good in postponing to the very last moment as I am? When it comes to life, your life, this moment might be too late to get epic shit done(...) I can put to him, that he is postponing everything not because that isn't normal state, but because it is normal for him. Postponing is one of elements making him who he is, and in one or another way, made him ride this bike as good as he can, and find someone to make such video. Maybe postponing means waiting and observing? And because he can observe he can develop certain feeligns, and occupied man wouldn't... you see it's complicated - How to be truly better, not just different
Sorry as usual I have to crap out lots of shit, to be able to write a meaningful summary...
To reply to your comment as it deserves....
I have just come back from Whistler and Silverstar.......heaven to us all right?
Well, no, not for me. Four days of great times and riding and of course, I want to go back, however, if that is heaven then it is nothing more than smoke and mirrors if the people who look to you for support and love one day turn to you, and find you are not there, find you out searching for yourself instead.
"Self improvement" and "finding yourself" has been simultaneously popular sub-culture and big business since the 60s and I for one am willing to call its bluff. For it means nothing if you embark on its path alone. The woman who is also my wife, the girl who is also my daughter, and I, are in this together, we sink or swim together, fail or succeed together, share in each others highs and lows (oh yes!). As a result, looking for myself without them is meaningless. I could never embark on chasing my own personal dream of happiness unless I was absolutely certain my wife and daughter were freely, willingly, happy to see me do so.
Even then, I may choose to stay with them and experience life with and through them as we grow up and old. Now THAT is epic shit done.
Success is about the small wins and stacking them on top of each other, building a foundation, not the big epic wins, its enjoying and revelling in the journey, our own and with those that we share our time with. I love my son and wife, and try to lead by example, not a do what i say not what i do. I dont want him to grow up with the burden of that i gave it up for you, i want him to know that i gave it my all and didnt pursue it further because I choose not too, no excuses.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=45kNqUF6kC4
Worth a listen.
When you return do Switzerland to ride, send a pm and we could meet and ride some tracks , Cheers
It may sound like a total anarchy but dream about world with no politicians who are thinking only about their wallets or about world with lack of these big concerns which are using people and earth like they want without no consequences is quite tempting.
On the other hand if one sees the dreams not as just a form of entertainment, but also an example of what they could accomplish in there life, it would have, as previously stated, a positive impact on their life.
All in all it really comes down to who you are as a person and if you're willing to work to achieve, quite literally, your dreams.
Dreaming is for those without direction, live for today and don't wake up tomorrow thinking about what you should have started yesterday/tomorrow.
Not everyone's approach; but it seems to be working for me.
And who wouldn't want to turn up a bike trail in deepest Tajikistan and say fluently in the native tongue to a new found friend that their bike looks like a Session?
That is what i would do if i could dream my future.
..I dream of finding the solution and pursuing..
Set a goal and make it happen!!
At this point if you are dreaming, you got to wake yourself up. Wake up to the truth that life is not all about you. We are all a part of this circle of life, and that at some point we need someone or something to get us through our goals and aspirations. And your utmost reward will be self fulfillment and personal gratitude, However, do not let yourself be burdened by the truth, recognize the its not all about YOU, otherwise you will end up in mediocrity.
(Disclaimer: I am huge fan of Jesus and his ways, so I believe in a creator. If you do not please do not take offense.)
Like many, my fear is the desire to have my son live a better life than I. If that fear was taken away from me, I’m not so sure I would have the same motivation for life, for living, as I do today. Fear can be a positive motivator. Don’t let it stop you though, use it to your advantage, and make fear, fear you.
It would change my life because you could dream away all of the negative stuff with the positive. Bliss.
In my opinion, anything I could ever dream here on Earth doesn't compare to the reality that I have received Jesus as my savior and have an eternity of joy and awesome existance after my life is over.
As pastor Tony Evans once stated, "For the saved, Earth is the closest thing to Hell they will ever experience and for the unsaved, Earth is the closest thing to Heaven they will ever experience".
vimeo.com/m/64657859
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ50UBCkwl0
you don't wake up?
I think i would be really groggy.