We have for the past couple of days been exploring what we would do when disaster or unforeseen events happen in our lives. Did you stop and think for even a moment what you would do if this happened to you? I grew up in Japan and the ground was always shaking beneath my feet. I got used to it. I became a human earthquake scale and I knew when it shook a certain way, or for a certain amount of time, or it certain things around me began to move in a certain way that I either could ignore it and go back to sleep or I should sit up, assess the situation, call out for my parents and then run from the house. So when I moved to California as an adult, I put these skills into motion once again when the ground shook underneath me. I was "programmed" you might say. I had an previous experience and a plan of how to act, what to do, where to go and what to say.
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Yesterday, I was in my living room "supervising" a project and listening to our grand piano which is a "disklavier" (which means it will play piano music for you). I had placed one of my favorite Broadway Musicals on "Les Miserables" . As I was swept away in the music I was suddenly aware that I seemed to be "looking outward" from within myself. I must admit it did seem strange for a moment (you know when you suddenly feel like you might be experiencing vertigo and you are sitting in a chair). I was observing my home environment with the eyes of someone half my age. Perhaps it was the song that was playing; "I Dreamed A Dream", with those words about: "…voices tearing you down…", "…days filled with endless wonder…", "..there are dreams that cannot be…", "….and …now life has killed the dream I dreamed…", those are powerful phrases and in hind sight of ones life they are very revealing.