1 Sometimes it feels like there is going to be a fight
2 Sometimes there is a fight
3 Sometimes there isn’t
4 Sometimes it relates to my thoughts from a previous blogpost
5 Sometimes it doesn’t
6 I often think of Channel 4’s tagline ‘Be First, Make Trouble, Inspire Change’
7 I love this. It is what we like to do too. What I aim to do all the time
8 Being first is making new stuff happen
9 This invariably makes trouble
10 It sometimes inspires change
11 This is good
12 But sometimes it makes numbers 1 and 2 happen
13 But mostly number 3 is the outcome
14 In doing so people on the sidelines like to shout and make a fuss
15 They like to tell you what you are doing, have done and will continue to do, wrong
16 They like to be vocal about these things
17 They like to make themselves feel better, because pointing out the things they think are wrong means that they feel right
18 Sitting on the sidelines is easy
19 Shouting and pointing out where you went wrong is the easiest job in the world
20 This is why they do it
21 It makes them feel important
22 It makes them feel like they imagine what it feels like to make new stuff
23 They are wrong. It doesn’t
24 They are often the ones who don’t make new stuff happen.
25 They are the ones who don’t put their heads over the parapet
26 The view is better from over the parapet
27 The air is clearer and fresher, and you get the full force of life in your face
28 It can be a lonely space to inhabit sometimes
29 You need to be up there with the people who are on your side – looking forwards
30 The view is way better and more exhilarating
31 From here you can’t really hear those on the sidelines , their voices become distant
32 From here you can see the next step and the route forward.
33 That’s what keeps you going
34 Make new stuff happen
35 You have nothing to lose. At all…
The image is taken from the opening of the feature film ‘The Knife That Killed Me’ a new movie for Universal Pictures by Marcus Romer, Kit Monkman and Thomas Mattinson
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