Walter Mitty: When are you going to take it?
Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the distraction of the camera. I just want to stay in it.
Walter Mitty: Stay in it?
Sean O'Connell: Yeah. Right there. Right here.
This is the exchange between Ben Stiller's character, Walter Mitty, and Sean Penn's character, Sean O'Connell in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty where O'Connell is a world-renowned photographer and Mitty is a Negative Assets Manager at Life Magazine. O'Connell passes on capturing a picture of a beautiful Snow Leopard in favor of capturing the moment.
We all are guilty of missing the moment sometimes. We drift away from the moment because of the past. We dream away the moment because of the future. Our commitment to the moment is destroyed because of some other distraction and it's lost forever.
Alan Watts, an English writer, speaker, and self-styled "philosophical entertainer" said it best, "I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is."
The Pike Place Fish Market was the impetus for The Fish Philosophy, training that inspires workplaces and individuals to choose to create the kind of life they desire. One of their pillars is to "Be there." Be emotionally present for people in the moment.
Enjoying the moment. Living the moment. Savoring the moment as you would your last bite of your favorite meal. This is the key to life.
Put down the phone. Stop over-thinking the past and hopelessly waiting for the future. And just be right there.
Right here.
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