Marvelous Revelations-From the Mouths of Babes

Posted on by Ron Dawson

imahni-blueMy daughter never ceases to amaze me. As a 14 year old teen, there are times when she drives me crazy. She can remember a conversation we had seven years ago when she was seven, but can’t remember to turn out the light when she leaves the bathroom (even now, as I write this, the downstairs bathroom light is illuminating without a soul in the room. Argh, the frustrations of a dad).

But, those little annoyances aside, I love her tremendously and I’m very proud of her. Every now and then she say or write something profound that makes me stop in my tracks. Last week she’ll wrote a blog post on her private blog (friends and family only) that really impressed me. So much so that I decided to make it a guest blog post today. It pretty much speaks for itself.

Everyone is upstairs at the moment, however, stealing away for a few moments I have decided to finally write a blog post after a very long lapse in my writings. Tonight I have come to a marvelous revelation that we as a people, see, hear, and say too much. I have come to realize that I talk too much. Also, I realize that I listen too much and even, write to much. Therefore, I have decided to be very choosy about what I publish and what I say (though this will take some doing). Not only that, but I am going to do my best at appreciating silence for what it is, instead of writing it off as the absence of noise.

Another revelation that I have discovered tonight is how ignorant I have been of celebrities and those in the spotlight. I began to read Miley Cyrus’ autobiography. As I was reading, I found that this person has a mind, a soul, and a heart with big dreams. She’s not just there for my entertainment. I often thought that I could judge “stars” based solely on verbs I read in articles, their press interviews, and pictures of their clothing choices. But I’m finding that I can’t. I don’t know why they committed that action. I don’t know why they are wearing that. Though they may have said something in an interview, maybe we were just asking the wrong questions- superficial questions that don’t define who he or she is. I’m surprised and humbled at my own foolishness. I don’t intend to forget this.

Already this post is rather long, but I do want to express one last point. I have come to yet another realization, through the help of a YouTube video (see below). That is that everything in our world is truly amazing and I am constantly missing it. As I was sitting in the car on the way home I thought, “Wait a minute, I am sitting in a chair, and I am moving. I don’t even know how this thing works. I don’t know why it’s moving, don’t really care to,  but wow! Oh my goodness, is it not amazing that man was even able to figure out how to make a machine move with a push of a peddle and help from a steering wheel? Or the fact that I can call someone a thousand miles away and they can hear me through an itty bitty little piece of plastic and some wires. How amazing is that? I am learning to stop and look at things simply. I don’t try to explain to myself why it’s perfectly easy and ordinary that I can send a text and someone miles away can receive it. I just look at like, wow, this is really happening and I am alive to see it. Not only that, but this is a millionth of the incredible things that people can do with technology today. We live in a fascinating world and I didn’t even know it. How pathetic is that? I’m so glad that God told me to wake up and smell the roses. Life is good.

http://www.youtube.com/v/UN0MpBQG3-E&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b

Brand and content marketing for the media and tech industries at Blade Ronner Media. Producer and host of Radio Film School. Think of it as "This American Life" for filmmakers. Author of the upcoming satirical memoir Dungeons 'n' Durags.