Elle Dailies

Life is like a game of Mahjong Solitaire…

So I had an epiphany yesterday.  I was uploading some files to my server which usually involves some waiting as some of the files I deal with are very large.  So what I usually do during these types of circumstances is play a game on my iPhone. 

 This time it turned out to be Mahjong Solitaire.  I’ve played this game a numerous amount of times and so I know a few things about myself when it comes to this game.

I know I can win the game no matter what.  Sometimes it’s easy and sometimes it requires a lot of focus.  So I choose my battles.  Sometimes I’m into the challenge and sometimes I’m not.  

See, sometimes I just want a diversion.  Something to keep me occupied while I wait.  Something mindless.  Sometimes I like and even love the challenge of a difficult game because I know there’s a way to solve this particular game, I just have to keep on trying until I figure it out.  I never came across a game that was very difficult and if I was in the mood to solve it no matter what, that I couldn’t solve it.

So, as I was playing last night, DING – a light goes off with the sound of a bell.  It was the dryer.  No seriously though… actually I was also doing some laundry so I wonder if that has anything to do with this referrence, actually, I’m still doing laundry as we speak so that reference is not so far fetched… ANYWAY!!!

So I had an epiphany.  I thought, life is like this.  Anything is like this.  My project Boy is like this.

A couple of posts ago I mentioned that I’m developing a short film called Boy which is the most significant film of the 21st Century.  I’ve created a masive challenge for myself.  I have visions of this film reaching a world wide audience of 40 million and then 1 billion and to actually cause a shift in concsiousness.

I’m currently in between the writing stage and pre-production of Boy and sometimes, as is quite common during these times, you question whether it is ready yet to move onto the next stage.  Because making a movie requires enormous about of man-power and finances, it is quite understandable that there is often hesitation.

Aside from this, I always felt that I had something significant to add to the world and I don’t want to make this movie so that it fails.  I want it to succeed!  So, is the script there yet?  Is this the script of a movie that is going to succeed?

And then it hit me.   I thought, this is like my game of Mahjong Solitaire.  I know I will win the game and this is one of those times when I’m in the mood to win and I’m up for the challenge.  And so I just need to let go of all of the constraints and keep on developing and creating this movie like I know I’m going to succeed until I do succeed.

No matter what, my message will get out there with Boy and I will make a significant contribution to the world!  Yay!