Today I had the pleasure to lead an innovation workshop for Baxter and share time with beautiful people, with warm hearts, including some of my students from the past, which fills my soul with happiness. This heresy came from the workshop and an exercise I had assigned as homework. The heresy suggests we declare one day each month – whatever day we want – to remind ourselves we are alive, because unfortunately, we tend to forget.
The exercise consisted of everyone doing something other than what they normally do, break the routine, innovate, before coming to the workshop. That something could be as simple as changing their hairstyle, putting their watch on the other hand, changing the radio station, the route to class, the daily routine, anything. By sharing their experiences, their words were the reflection of how uncomfortable any change in our lives can be. They experienced frustration, resistance, anxiety. However, they also discovered that some of these activities gave them an interesting alternative that they would be happy to experience again and they felt they had discovered something positive that they wanted to make a part of their lives. In other words, they remembered that they were alive!
At what point in our life did we decide that everything had already been invented and let our routine become the only mold that will wind up killing us little by little? At what point did we choose to stop being alive? In today’s heresy, I suggest we declare the “being alive day” to experience something new in our lives that will remind us we are not dead, that we cannot let ourselves die.
And with today’s heresy, I would like to thank life for reminding me I am alive, and I thank each of my friends for all the love you have sent me. I am on my way to my MRI, thanks for being there for me.
