A Timely Man

In his latest role Denzel Washington portrays a character with great personal strength, resourcefulness and integrity. An individualist of unwavering purpose whose presence is immediately noted by the energy he projects, which some envy and others react to with varied levels of fear. When I went to see the movie, better than 9 out of 10 of my fellow moviegoers were men. I anticipated seeing what the previews had indicated would be a tale of a man who was as described earlier, living his life as he chose in a manner that served him and most importantly, ultimately served humanity. The character traits we saw portrayed on screen by Denzel are not so much missing in men today as they are put aside in deference to what our society has come to expect men to be. That man was portrayed by Denzel’s counterpart, Gary Oldman. A character who was driven to dominate, driven by greed and the desire for power, obtained at any cost, destroying anything or anyone that got in his way all in service of his own personal desires.
We as men are the destroyers but it should not be in the service of our issue driven wants. Instead our destruction is in the service of making way for the creation of that which serves others, i.e. our spiritual evolution. For thousands of years we have been doing the former and can see as we look around us that only the context has changed, the results have not. We still live in a muddle of greed and desire to dominate. Fear keeps us there. http://bit.ly/ifiAQ Getting beyond that fear is the reason for our journey here. All the rich rewards we seek await us as we navigate what is a very narrow path.