“Sometimes it’s the people no one imagines anything of, who do the things that no one can imagine.”  

Several of you may have seen the film The Imitation Game, directed by Morten Tyldum, which was released back in 2015.  My husband and I just watched it last night.  The movie, based partly on the biography of Alan Turing’s life, was wonderfully written, cast, and portrayed.  At least by our very non-movie-critic minds and hearts.  The above quote, in particular, seemed to resonate with us both.

It’s not the first time that we have heard something sort of like this.  Especially as we raise our two children, we highlight for them (and find articles to back up) the benefits in “being bold,” “staying weird,” and “living originally.”  It’s no surprise this works for many parents, teachers, caregivers, and so on, as the most bold/weird/original savants/and so on of our time, along with the generations before, tend to fulfill the wonderment of eccentricity and awe (e.g. Picasso, Einstein, Pollock, Mozart, Gaga, Winehouse, and so on, to name a very selected few).  Not to decree that success equates exactly to fame, or vice versa.  Though the very empowered experience of exploring one’s uniqueness as strength — no matter the outcome of your job/schooling/status/and so on — is a lesson I would argue that we present to any of our children, and friends, and coworkers, and so on … you get the idea here.

This seems to be an interesting topic for revisiting, but I simply wanted to speak to the wildness and simplicity of how deeply this quote stays with me.  Personally, it correlates with living authentically; which, arguably, is one of the most vulnerable and brave efforts we can make as a Human Being.  Among all the distraction and noise and frustration (and so on) — being exactly who we are, in part by engaging with those who support that very Self — well, that’s the most imaginative and important work of all.  Make your art.  The world truly needs it.

With love, kindness, and so on …