How Would You Live If You Were Totally Fearless?

Category Ego, Surrender

Life is fun.

Have you ever seen the movie Groundhog Day? It’s a film starring Bill Murray where every day he wakes up living the exact same day over and over. At first it sucks, but he finds out that because every morning it’s like getting the reset button hit, there are NO consequences to your previous actions!

Imagine if life was like that. You could do whatever you want, take risks you’ve always been afraid of taking, try new things that may end up in mind-blowing failure, see what it’s like to rob a bank, go on a high speed chase and wind up in jail… heck, even if you killed yourself, you would wake up right back in the same bed with the chance to do it all over again. Nothing you did yesterday ever happened.

Selfishness

The main character in the movie a very egotistical so he starts out using this experience to his own self-centered advantage, doing his best to get what he wants and, well, screw what others want because it just doesn’t matter.

The recent economic crash we experienced is based on this mentality. The rich and powerful seek to get what they want at the expense of others, but in this disparity that’s created, everything crashes. We truly are all one and when we harm to get what we want, even if we get what we want in the short term, it’s simply not a sustainable long term solution.

Service to Others

I’m not going to spoil the movie for those of you who haven’t seen it, but he then experiments with using his newfound abilities to serve others. Knowing when someone is going to get a flat tire, get hurt, and so on, you have the ability to run around town and be at the right place at the right time to save everyone, almost like being a superhero.

Talking with people one day, you could know exactly what to say to them or what gifts to give them that would make them the happiest. In the movie he even picks up women through trial and error until he gets it right. hmm, perhaps this should be in the section above on selfishness, though we could say it’s also service to others since they enjoy it too. You decide.

Social Freedom

The main thing I want to highlight is the sense of complete and total social freedom he displays. You gotta watch the movie to truly appreciate it, but he’s completely fearless.

What would you do if you were completely and totally fearless?

What would you do if other people’s opinions of you had no effect whatsoever on your state of being?

What would you do if you were totally free to be or do ANYTHING you wanted, without worrying about the results?

How deeply would you Love? How devious would you be?

What would you say to people? How would you treat others knowing you’d be okay no matter what?

How would you live without attachments?

How free would you feel?

What would you do with your life in that day?

This’ll be a fun discussion.

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8 Responses to “How Would You Live If You Were Totally Fearless?”

Ariel Bravy said:

I’ll go first and get the ball rolling.

-Go skydiving with no parachute
-Go out and give 100 wildly amazing compliments
-Test drive a Ferrari and see how fast it can go
-Go up to beautiful ladies and give them a big kiss
-Instead of the “Free Hugs” thing, do “Free Kisses”
-Do that thing where you walk on the wing of a biplane
-Base jump off a tall building
-Go streaking at a big sports arena
-Go to a store and buy EVERYTHING
-Hire body guards and walk around like I’m famous
-Find people who are unknowingly about to die and get them to call their loved ones
-Round up some homeless people and take them to an all-you-can-eat buffet
-Doing outlandish things to see the looks on people’s faces
-Attend all the great concerts, get up backstage, on stage, jump into the crowd
-Crash all the best parties
-Meet everyone and make great friends
-Be the life of the party

Fadi Reply:
November 10th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
How about if you realised it was all just a dream and you could do absolutely anything you wanted… ie if you turned this experience into a lucid dream.. I know the fisrt thing I would do, would be to fly and be free, fly around the world like superman, and then just live the experience, but knowing and changing things instantly whenever I desired to… but my first thing, would be definitely to fly…
I once did have a (consciously induced lucid dream) where I had so much control I made the earth stop spinning…
NAMASTE

Cathy Elaine Reply:
November 11th, 2008 at 10:43 am
I enjoyed your reply – both fun ideas and random acts of kindness.

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Jeff said:

I love the bodygaurd thing

-Walk around naked all day.
-Pee in a public fountain
-Travel the world with no money
-Walk around spanking hot girls
-Talk in an Irish accent all day
-Spend my life savings visiting Ariel
-Skip out on a meal bill
-Piss off some cops and get arrested
-Drive a fast car really fast until I crash
-Buy a strangers groceries
-Do a double backflip
-Be loud, obnoxious and do whatever I feel like
-Spend a day placing pennies heads up around town
-Spread Love in diabolical ways
Carol King said:

Great post, I have seen Ground Hog Day and its a great movie. I think in the same instance many people would behave in exactly the same way Bill Murray’s character did. First would come the denial, then would come a little deviousness, ok maybe a lot of deviousness and then self awarness and realization would set in and the focus would probably switch toward others rather than just helping ourselves. At least I would like to think that is what would happen.

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Ariel Bravy Reply:
November 11th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Thank you very much for the award, Carol! I greatly appreciate your gift and gladly accept your warmth.
Ismaelia said:

Ok,I would dance all over town stripping off my clothes as I got hotter and sweatier, I would sing at the top of my lungs at the highest mountain top, I would share a ride with a homeless man, I would eat as much ice cream as I possibly could then buy cones for all the kids in the neighborhood, I would hug and kiss every person I met and when I heard a joke I would laugh so hard I would fall down and roll all over the floor. Wow! This is fun!

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