This past Saturday morning, somehow and through some nice twist of fate, turned out to be the third of what I hope to be many, "do nothing" Saturday mornings for 2009. By "do nothing" I mean there is nothing scheduled for me to do, nothing for the kids to do, nothing for anyone that has to be done. So what was the first thing I did after starting the coffee maker, I turned on the Telly and started surfing until I happened upon a Nicholas Cage movie; "The Weather Man" in which he plays Chicago weatherman Dave Spritz(el).
If you have not seen the movie, while I will try not to spoil it for you but I feel that I will have to reveal something in order to get to what I want to write about, therefore be warned: SPOILER ALERT!!!
In the movie, Dave Spritz is the son of a famous writer, he is also a father to two kids each with their own problems, ex-husband to a woman who has moved on but knows he hasn't. He has a job he likes, except for the fact that people throw food at him, however, he is being courted by a network to do their national morning show. Long story short, he is at a crossroads of needing to move forward but struggling with the fact, that moving forward means change. A change he is or is not ready for…hmmm when are we ever really ready for change?
There is one scene where Dave is talking to his father (who is struggling with his own mortality in the form of cancer) and the last bit of real fatherly advice that the Michael Caine characters gives Cage is "Easy doesn't enter into grown up life."
Family, Career, and one's self have to interact in harmony (or as close it as possible). We hear that all, we know it, yet we find it so difficult to do. However, we must constantly work at it. Constant work means that it will not be easy. Remember when we were young, our parents provide everything we needed; food, shelter, clothing, and money. Therefore, for the first 18 or so years of our lives it was easy. Then we were out on our own, we had to work to make money to buy things, to buy food, to live. Throw in a relationship or two and things get somewhat difficult.
Of course, some things are more difficult than others. It is usually when things get difficult that we start to realize that “easy” has quickly become a thing of the past. It is also at this point that we yearn for the past and all the "easy" stuff we had back then. As times change, no matter where we are or what we are doing, "easy" starts to become a distant memory and something that we see as the only answer.
Whether in our personal or professional life no matter how hard you try things will never be easy. We can try to get as close to "easy" as possible, but it just won't happen, I know I have tried one too many times.
FYI, here is the trailer for The Weather Man:
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