Friday reflection

Strategic positivity?

I finally saw the much-buzzed-about film, “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” and… holy humanity, Batman. What a moving, funny, creative explosion of expression that feels like it was made for exactly this moment in the world (though the more I learn of history, the more I realize how many moments may have felt like this one). I highly recommend it, and would be remiss not to note that its lead character is a complex woman, and one of the other main characters is also a complex (younger) woman, and Jamie Lee Curtis shows up doing her best Frances McDormand impression and it is a helluva lot of fun to watch.

The quote I’ve chosen for this week comes from the movie’s main male character, Waymond, which is off-brand of me, but it expresses something that I’ve been wrestling with lately, and that I’ve seen some of my clients wrestling with, too.

Quote

"When I choose to see the good side of things, I'm not being naive. It is strategic and necessary. It's how I learned to survive through everything."

— The character of Waymond in the movie “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

Questions

Do you believe Waymond, that choosing to see the good side of things is strategic and necessary?

Thinking about your own life right now, if you were to choose to see the good side of things, what would you see?

How does it make you feel, to see those things?

Let me know in the comments.