The Star Of A Wanderer Who Carries His Cross
Face the reality by going forward, without getting lost in the chain of events, in which you yourself are the protagonist.
There was a time, when he could not be reconciled with himself: he was too disappointed with the way in which the things had changed, by his own fault, because he discovered that damned bag full of money.
Like a pirate, who hides his treasures, and then making himself unseen, Llewelyn Moss, rushes, rushes, rushes, he does not look either to left or right, rushes with that full faith that he must fight in order to survive. The proof of a last reserve of vitality. The desperate reaction of a power unleashed from the depths of his conscience.
With strength of character and determination, he rushes like the wind to that relentless call of the destiny, which always tends to be fulfilled at the established time.
Caught in a game, which had something that set in motion - in a great way - all the fibers of the audacious ones. Being pursued like a beast of prey by his bitterest enemies, on the one hand by the drug dealers, on the other one by the men of the law, and, above all, by Anton Chigurh, the merciless assassin.
So Moss crosses the border to Mexico, taking on a life of a wanderer, un proscrit, sinking into the darkness of anonymity. An exile based on the continuous succession of some enigmatic and desperate actions, in total disagreement with his personality. An individual's removal from normality, by creating a captive reality.
Is the ultimate proof of your vitality a consistent application of caution that unexpectedly moves you to the highest elevation of feeling, leaving you to believe in need, that it is just one of the many possibilities of guidance you are capable of?
What was going on in the soul of Moss? At every step, he probably said "I am running to correct my mistakes; I must keep well as a wall; I will respond with my life for every step that I will make behind."
All his senses seemed focused on avoiding dangers. He felt dragged forward, irresistibly, by the roller of pursuers, becoming the protagonist of a "work" whose reality belonged to them. Stuffy, like a heavy load, in him happened a sudden change from being in a position of strength to not being.
Being pursued everywhere, surrounded like a deer by a pride of lions. He did nothing but to delay his death, carrying on his back the heavy cross of sins. And only his lucky star seemed to guide him, without anyone knowing in which way to go.
He was accustomed to always go forward, straight ahead. Without knowing that when the star fades - and this will certainly happen - he will disappear along with it.
Do you keep watch on respecting the precaution at the level of making decisions under uncertainty, when the asset of your strengths is under-evaluated?
The way you respond to the course of events highlights certain realities that you ignore or banter, or you do not see them, but which are the only significant realities, which unquestionably can win a place in your existence.
A seemingly inexpugnable circle of unexpected situations, perspectives, overthrow of values, intertwined realities, and personal transformation processes, with apparent uniformities and regularities in a sum of chaotic factors that multiply from one day to another and manifest themselves arbitrarily, in a series of circumstances, happy or not, in a broad crisis of personality.
Therefore, the pursuit of diversity of perspectives, ideas and choices, on which to focus on your way towards excellence is primarily. It makes you include a certain depth, certain meanings, senses, multiple "facets", if you want, which are often in an implicit polemic between them.
To associate the elements drawn from reality, sometimes complementary, at other times contradictory, without being convinced of the veracity of the final result, that will not contradict your way of being, here is the confusion, the border of today and tomorrow, at which stops the skill and the wisdom of the leader.
Personal transformation is a consequence of the overthrow of that reality that you cannot avoid, but from which the force of moral and spiritual mirroring leads to a determination that breaks down any barriers imposed by the course of events.
To be someone else than who you really are, because of the events that change suddenly, of the circumstances on which the future may bring, it's a pretty risky reversal operation, which also has a correspondent well-defined in reality, in what you feel, in what you think, and in what you do.
Are you someone other than whom you pretend you are? Are you disappointed by the way things change, because of you? Do you feel trapped in a game that sets in motion your whole inner structure? Are you building your excellence after a code in total disagreement with your personality? Do you feel dragged on, irresistibly, by the roller of an uncontrolled evolution? Do you evolve to another way of being? Are you the protagonist of a "work" whose reality belongs to the others around you?
Are you hastening your transformation to the detriment of the constant of being always in a position of strength?
I was reading a few days ago the fable "The man and the demon". A demon gives to a child a cotton thread and tells him. This is the thread of your life. Take it. When you want the time to flow faster, pull the thread, and your days will pass quicker or slower, as you will let the thread to go, quicker or more leisurely. As long as you do not touch the thread, you will always be in the same moment of your existence.
The child took the cotton thread; pulled by the thread, wanting to fulfill all desires, one by one. After the meeting with the demon, he lived only four and a half months.
If there are certain dominances or momentary escapes of your will to contribute to changing things, then your potential of to be what you were meant to be will fall dramatically. To be someone other than who you really are, is like "pulling the thread" - you are hastening your transformation to the detriment of the constant of being in a position of strength.
Leadership is the position you adopt in those situations where you can easily stumble, but where you find that finding as a rule: the toughest reality you face is the only opportunity to think about how you can become more confident and inspired so that you are able to change the clauses of the convention called "defeat".
A position of strength is obtained through a correct perception of what you are in the context of the vision that survives the wandering in a world which removes and isolates those caught in it.
This wandering can be perceived as a form of your struggle against death and your ambition to control time, to be one step ahead of it. But at the same time, it can be perceived as a trap of its own uncertainty in experiencing a life of meaninglessness, driven by an insignificant purpose.
The star of a wanderer who carries his cross brings into focus that continuous and unfavorable transformation, which like the wind scatters in chase all your efforts to keep unaltered your Ego, and the perspective on that unique thing that you intend to touch: the excellence.
Before passing to a higher level of leadership, find the courage and the inner strength to ask yourself about the reality of your own beliefs. Just as the electrons need a conductive material to move, so you must always manage to find a supporting point in your views of reality for your personality, your emotions, to be congruent with the final result: self-confidence.
Face the reality by going forward, without getting lost in the chain of events, in which you yourself are the protagonist.
Festina lente". Do not rush in reaching your goal at any cost, with an amazing speed. You risk not getting to fulfill it. Be in resonance with what you are, with the contemporaries and the constantly changing events. Adapt yourself to them. And so your star will not set too soon.
* Note: No Country for Old Men (2007)
