by Betsy Chasse
How often do you wonder, “Where will I be in five years?”
Thinking back to August of 2001, I never would have guessed how my life was about to change – dramatically. Some of you may know my story of how I ended up working with Will and Mark on “Bleep.” I had created a list of things I wanted to have happen in my life: fulfillment, success, bills paid, a family, a beautiful home in the country - and within weeks of spending hours focusing on that list some of it seemed to be materializing.
But the details of how it would all play out were obscure. The details are still working their way into my life!
It’s always an interesting contemplation to focus on what thoughts the current realities in your life manifested from. I can distinctly remember the beginning of this particular phase in my life, and can see that that one moment five years ago when I asked myself, “Where am I going?” “What Do I really want in my life” lead me here. It’s comforting to know I wouldn’t change a thing.
One of the things on my list way back in 2001 was to find someone to share my life with. In that moment I didn’t think of everything that would come into my life just from that one stated desire. I don’t know if it’s even possible to see all the potentials at once. There are so many possible roads to travel/tangents in anything we put our focus to!
One of the most profound potentials to show up as a result of that desire has been my daughter, Elorathea. It’s almost unbelievable to me that she choose to come into this world during the wild time making the BLEEP and the early days of its theatrical release in 2004. Many of you may remember seeing her while I was on the road – before and after birth! I sometimes joke she came out of the womb saying “Ponder That For A While.”
In the last two years I have marveled in her ability to keep me in the now, and evoke over and over again an incredible intuitive sense of joy and wonder. I know it’s just the beginning. I wonder if she even asks herself where she’ll be in five years? Probably not – she’s so in the NOW it’s already part of her and she may already know!
Since her birth I have also marveled at what it takes to be a parent of a two-year-old and how it makes you think. For example, there is this feeling amongst many parents that videos and television are bad, and you should only read books to your children, and only certain books and then you have to look at the books, and vet the books … and quite frankly, I kind of got stressed out about it. I thought, “Gosh, I can't let my child watch television.” And then I thought, “Well gosh, sometimes I watch television. And besides which, I’m a filmmaker!” I kind of felt like I was keeping something from her. Next > 1 2
