Name Dropping

Unlike most clever writers, I will not bring in the title of my blog many chapters later. Instead you will get this inside scoop on just where this blog gets its namesake.

Dan Millman (Scott Mechlowicz ) has a chance encounter with Socrates (Nick Nolte). No, not the old guy miming from "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure", but another fictitious representation of the wise man. If you recognize the names, and for those who don't, I'll skip foreshadowing and tell you I'm speaking on the book-made-film "Peaceful Warrior".

Out of all the lessons that Socrates imparts to young Dan, my personal favorite is the clearing of the mind. Dan has run to keep a meeting with Socrates and rush his lesson to make it back for gymnastic tryouts. The day's lesson is how to clear the mind, not exactly a light topic to throw out in passing conversation. Regardless, Socrates rises to meet this time constraint. Accepting this time limit he grabs Dan by the waist and tosses him over the edge of the bridge. Dan lands in a small stream and comes out angry and yelling about "How was that supposed to teach me anything?!" Socrates applaudes him on learning the lesson. Dan is quite confussed. Socrates asks what Dan was thinking about on his descent to meet the water. Dan's response, "I dunno, nothing."

Even with all the eastern philosophy ingrained in this story, there are some very valid lessons about living in the moment while having hope in the future. I do ask you to see this flick, if you are close enough to me, just ask me for it.

So with hope, I begin this blog. That I can share life with ye people of the internets. That even in my life when I'm thrown off a bridge or fall off due to more internal reasons, that I can see and share the hope. The hope that even in that moment something more can come from it.