“Listen with your heart, you will understand.” -- Pocahontas
Why SHOULDN’T we move to be near Disney?
Many times the first response I hear when I tell someone we’re moving to Florida
There was an author and orator by the name of Joseph Campbell who appeared in interviews on a PBS series and later published the transcripts called “The Power of Myth”, who coined the philosophical term “Follow Your Bliss”. The phrase has permeated pop culture, and most people are aware of it; but most aren’t aware of the rest of what he was saying. He said:
“Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be. If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else."
This philosophy touches me deeply and causes me to reflect on what I find blissful in my life. These are things I return to time after time.
- Disney
- Theatre
- Art and drawing
Reading - Love
- When Mark gets home from work
- When our dog rests his head on my lap
- Christmas
- Halloween
- Mashing any combination of these things into one!
I don't think very many of us follow our bliss. We may visit it as a hobby, or we may be too frightened to disrupt what we already know. As an experiment, I took the words “your bliss” and replaced them with the word “Disney”. Now it reads:
“Follow Disney. If you do follow Disney, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of Disney, and they open the doors to you. I say, follow Disney and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be. If you follow Disney, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else."
Who is say that Disney does not qualify as “bliss”? Mark and I both find happiness and fulfillment from everything that Disney has to offer, on a daily basis. It’s not just amusement parks, or animated movies. It’s a sense of community, a feeling of nostalgia, the longing to share those feelings with other people. Snort all you want my friend, but the signs were there all along. You won’t snort when you want a place to stay when you come to Disney World on vacation, and we have a spare room for you!
What is your bliss? What is your passion? What makes you happiest in life? Are you following it? Please comment.
Comments are welcome. Positive feedback encouraged!
Mouseketeer Ken
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Ken, knowing what you seek is half the battle to finding your bliss. Of course there is hard work to do to turn your idle daydreams into your reality, physically getting to Orlando and carving out a new life there to incorporate your Disney bliss. So here are a few of the signs, symptoms and feelings that you may experience when you find and follow your bliss be it Disney or your very own bliss. I have replaced the word bliss below with Disney in some instances. Perhaps it will ring true for you as you read each one.
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you feel totally alive at Disney, as if your body is resonating at a slightly higher frequency
you eyes light up walking down Main Street at Disney
You see things more clearly, as if a mist has cleared or a fog has lifted and now you can see more clearly or deeply understand
you feel totally at home within your skin and so comfortable within yourself that you the ideas of who you are fade
time ceases to exist when you are following your bliss - whether that is researching at home or being there at the park.
you feel surrounded by kindred spirits when you find other people who are passionate about Disney
you have deep, insightful discussions with people you have known only a few minutes about Disney
you experience leaps of insight and the profound understanding of concepts and ideas that go beyond words
you find yourself creating at an extraordinary level far beyond your normal abilities with Disney
Disney brings you worlds of ideas and knowledge that you never knew existed open up to you
the world becomes a place where synchronicities start to make sense and form a subtle path pointing you to the things you need to discover
you find yourself (many times unknowingly) amassing a collection of resources built around Disney
you feel the touch of unseen hands guiding you towards Disney
you feel like a light deep inside of you has been turned on
days you follow your bliss start to feel a bit like Christmas morning, making you want to jump out of bed and see what the day holds
Comment by ~ Rhode Island Mouse