The Terminal
In the movie The Terminal starring Tom Hanks, the protagonist ends up in passport limbo at JFK airport.
Near the end of the ordeal, Viktor Navorski is ready to go home, but before that, he is offered the chance of a lifetime to actually go into New York City. After 9 months of living in this public space, he has to decide if this is worth it.
We are often in The Terminal with our Most Creative Work.
Some of us have no problem starting but will struggle to finish. Other people will struggle to start but will indeed finish when they get over that hump of starting.
No matter what your style is, leaving the terminal can represent the resistance that we go through.
You came all this way. Pushed through a womb into a mad world. With everything that happened from the chaos of childhood to the trials and false starts of adulting.
Are you going to take your life’s work to the final stages and head out into New York City, or are you going to stay in the terminal and just go back to Krakozhia?
Yes it’s true, we can’t control how people respond to our work.
We can’t force people to love and accept it.
Yet we do have the power to take hold of our focus and keep pushing the ball down the hill.