Conversion rarely happens in one step. Usually there is a gradually increasing feeling of unease followed by a sudden external trigger that invokes the start of the conversion. In the movie The Deer Hunter, the main character is obsessed by hunting until he finally gets to his target within shooting range. On the one hand, he is struck by the beauty of the deer. On the other hand, he slowly got devastated by all the ugliness his hunting had left behind in the past. He decides to change course and not to shoot the deer he had always wanted to shoot so much.
The same can happen in our life. Obsessed with work, we may suddenly
discover the beauty we had always failed to see. The bullet we wanted to fire ends up in our
own heart and brings us to conversion. And we may make the conservation of
beauty to our new life objective.
I refer to
my Dutch blog het potentieel van een mislukking.
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