Feet on the ground?

Get your head out of the clouds!!

Day dreaming is something adults try to shake out of us as kids. We’re told to keep our feet on the ground, to be realistic, to be practical about what is possible. The adults in our lives tend to err on the side of protecting our little spirits rather than pushing us to think big.

Where does that leave us as adults? Any time we start to think big, our trained response is to pull back. Too often we mistake negative thinking with being realistic. We see being practical as a protection against harm rather than playing it safe, which is more harmful in the long run. The reality check becomes a shackle holding us down to earth.

But learning to soar in the clouds, to dream, imagine, think big allows us to find something we never expected—a better reality.

From up high, we can see so much more of what could be and choose a better place, a better reality to be grounded on. One we can’t see if we stay shackled right where we are, in a location we’re already familiar with.

How long have you had your feet on the ground where you are? Is it time to get your head up in the clouds?

Comments

[Elias Salem]

This sounds like a case of what my friends call "Adultitis" at http://kimandjason.com/blog/. They try to get us adults to bring back that "kid" in us.

[bitterbetterideaguy]

Adults really need to start thinking and acting like kids again. In the last week I've seen the movie Monsters Vs. Aliens twice and both times I watched other parents tapping away on Blackberries or checking phone messages. What didn't I see virtually any parents doing? Laughing at the movie. This was a movie geared toward kids with slapstick humor but overflowing with adult jokes from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Beverly Hills Cop, Spaceballs, and tons of early era monster movies. After the first showing, which was at a birthday party, one of the other parents remarked that I probably liked the movie more than the kids. I think she was right. What I couldn't help but feel though was sad that all these other people had forgotten how to simply enjoy a funny movie, like their children.