Message of the Day: Mourning Your Snow White

Good Morning,

 

While on some errands today, I stopped by the local supermarket to get some wonderful cantaloupes. Standing on line, I saw the movie Snow White playing on a large screen TV. It was at the part after the witch poisoned Snow White and the 7 Dwarves were out for revenge, chasing the witch up a cliff. Afterwards, the dwarves and forest creatures mourned the apparent loss of Snow White for a long time until the Prince who wakes her from her slumber arrived.

 

This made me think of the times when we feel like we are trapped or in stasis. A goal gets put on hold. A pet project has to be sidelined. Because of our circumstances we basically give up and mourn our situation. We place flowers by the glass coffin which holds our Snow White.

 

The dwarves felt powerless and transformed Snow White's coffin into a shrine where they remained ever vigilant. The one thing they did not do was search for a solution. They did head out in different directions and get that Prince to arrive sooner. They did not search for an even more powerful witch or wizard to counter the first's work.

 

Likewise we wait for our own Prince to come and get us back into the game, or back on course. A lot of the challenges we face though, do not require a magical kiss to fix.

 

Maybe we can break this cycle and instead of mourning a failure, or being pigeon-holed, or whatever, we could head out and actively find the solution ourselves. We can ask questions instead of assuming the worst. We can research, study and network.

 

There were seven dwarves mourning Snow White to one of us, be we have the internet, social networks, organizations, etc., I bet we have the advantage.

 

Instead of mourning our Snow White, let's get out there and search for solutions.

 

Enjoy!

 

 

Sanford Berenberg
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