Lessons I learned from Alice in WonderLand

I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure. 
-- Eric Lidel

I know Alice in the Wonderland is so yesterday but today I decided to watch the movie (more like forced to watch since my nephew popped in the DVD). To be honest I really did not like or understand the cartoons back then maybe it's because of the idea of falling to a hole in the ground and finding yourself lost isn't just exciting to me back then (well maybe even until now). Back then I didn't know what it's all about but with Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, I realized that the movie is quite interesting. I picked few life lessons in the process as I watched the movie. Allow me to share three of them to you.

Lesson #1. Know thy self.
The movie was really about a girl who is trying to know herself and her struggle to stay away from other people trying to make plans for her life.

In my life I have met many people who tried to tell me what to do. They say things like, "you should take masters degree" or "you start your MBA degree as early as now" or "you should buy a house or get a car" or "join this business" or "you should work to be a General Manager of your company". These are good suggestions but this does not necessarily coincide with how God designed my being. As young person I followed some of these advise even if deep down inside I don't totally like it. I just hope that I will like it when I'm there already; I enrolled in masters degree and got a pretty good grade ( in fact, allow me to brag, I think I was #2 or #3 in the class) but the process of doing it is a chore for me. I could not see the end result and the "why" I'm doing it. I felt harassed every time I go to school so even I think I was getting the "success" in this endeavor I felt it was just a waste of time.

I decided to really know myself and ask what is it that I want to do. What is it that when I do it I feel God's pleasure?1 Now I am staying home, learning internet marketing, reading books, talk in public, blog, join care groups, help develop people and encourage people, generate ideas and work with teams, and you know what when I do these things I feel His pleasure.:)

Don't allow other people to dictate what you must do. Know thy self.2

Lesson #2. Believe in at least Six Impossible things.
This is probably one of the life lessons that is new to me that I found in the movie. When I heard this line,"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." I thought,"why not?":) I mean, why not believe in six impossible things before breakfast? Why not believe in what cannot be done? Why not believe in what you thought impossible or hard or unfeasible? Why not stretch? Why not go beyond the unknown?

Lesson #3. There is a place called Wonderland.
I know that is one the six impossible things that Alice believe in but I just want you (and me) to reflect in the this "Do you believe in a place called Wonderland?"

I thought about this and I realized that we need to have a wonderland time. A time when we just wonder and imagine the possibilities. A time when we just stretch beyond what we can do and think about doing what we cannot do. It's a time to challenge our sanity and bring in realities that we have never thought before.Imagine what you can do when you kept on imagining doing what you thought you could not do?3

I hope that you find this post helpful.

Taking a sip,
Joseph Librero

1 Eric Lidel
2 Socrates
3 Joseph Librero (I just thought of this)