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“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” – Anne Lamott
Have you ever wished the world would just stop—even for a moment—so you could catch your breath? Become Adam Sandner, from the movie, Click, purchase that magical remote control and press the pause button every time you need a break? You know the moment I am talking about: when you need to just get the heck out of the noise, and business, loneliness, or run from (you fill in the black). While our struggles are all different, we all know the challenge: somehow stay hopeful when the storm around us says, Nope! You better run for cover!
As a twenty something woman in the 90s, a dear friend and I went to see a musical at a hole-in-the-wall theater in Carmel. The message from the theatrical production has stayed with me for the better half of 30 years. Stop the World – I Want to Get Off, revolved around a single character, Littlechap, who constantly searches for something more—only to realize, too late, that the moments he rushed through were the very ones that mattered most. At the end of his life, he’s screaming, “Stop the world! I want to get off!” calling the audience into a suspended state of space and time as if you’re at the top of a rollercoaster and it is seconds away from dropping off the edge. The edge of self-worth, vulnerability, or shame prickling up the back of your neck.
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