Episode 5
Jump Around
At many points of our lives, perhaps many times a day, we put our trust in other people, perhaps even complete strangers.
We cross the street, expecting that we won’t be run over. We drive our cars expecting that the brakes will still function. We trust the bus or taxi driver to get us where we’re going. We might not even stop to think about the high level of faith that we are showing.
Then when it comes to more personal aspects of our lives, we doubt and worry. We are concerned that our new job won’t work out, or we regret that we left our old job. We might even let these doubts consume us.
Can we manage to extend that faith from our impersonal lives, into our personal lives? Can we expect, without being complacent, that things will work out okay?
Hosts & Guests
Kurt Robinson
Transcript
Let’s talk about trusting the situation.
So many times in our life where we might not think about it and we might be in a taxi or on a boat or just in a bus or even crossing the street. So many things from a perspective have to go right for us to continue in peace, not to be slammed by a car or something.
It’s not nice to think about but it can happen every day.
Just yesterday riding down the street and a fellow in front of me on a bicycle didn’t stop and got slammed by a car. The car braked and wasn’t going that fast and the man wasn’t injured.
These kinds of things can happen every day. There’s so much chaos or so many variables in the world and it’s kind of a wonder how we can get by and navigate going in peace and remaining intact.
The other day doing an interview with my friend Monty Jones talking about going out on the high seas on an adventure and taking a catamaran all the way from sea shells to Alexandria, Egypt.
He decided to put his faith into the captain even though he didn’t know the captain all that well.
He decided, what he says goes because I am along this adventure and this is it. He was committed. Whatever he said he would do.
At the end of the interview you can hear that I asked Monty “that kind of trust you put in the captain have you put that in other places in your life? If you think about the amount of trust in a taxi driver, some taxi drivers aren’t so worthy of the amount of trust we give them.
If you imagine all those times in your life when you’re putting in literally the life in the hands of another person, perhaps a complete stranger where you know their face nothing more?
How can you put that faith in other aspects of your life? How can we trust things will work out?
Is it stupid to do that? I don’t think it is because I think that things do generally work out. It’s hard to see it when we are caught up in the moment. If we observe that feeling, perhaps there is a feeling that things are going to work out ok. Or that things are on balance or alright.
It’s a reasonable risk to take to get into the bus so much so that we don’t even think about it and we expect that things are going to turn out ok.
Maybe, just maybe, it’s the same in other aspects of our lives. We can with that relaxed attitude step forward with that trust, with that faith, things will be ok.
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