Experience the gift of the unknown with Destination Obscured

The Game, a 1997 thriller/mystery about Nicholas Van Orton 

(played by Michael Douglas) is a successful banker who keeps mostly to himself. His estranged brother Conrad (played by Sean Penn) returns on his birthday with an odd gift, participation in a personalized real-life game. A game that changes his world.

"Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths." Drew Barrymore

The dynamics portrayed in the movie The Game, would not be a viable business model. But it is interesting that some of the greatest benefits to our lives came to us without our permission or desire to participate. Pain is often the birthplace of growth. Pain is not always a negative experience. But I'm convinced that humans can not choose this experience for one another. Perhaps that is the work of God. To know the good pain that produces good change is perhaps the art of the heavens.

The Game, inspired a thought I had about the concept of travel/vacation. Often in our busy lives, we long for that week of vacation. We scan the internet for the perfect destination. We see the images that capture our attention. Our minds fill with fantasies of what it will be like when we get there. The agreement was to make an exchange of money for an experience that we had expected. 

"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack." Brandon Sanderson

A universal truth seems to point to an interesting aspect of the human condition. The words that describe our negative emotions all seem to be rooted in first having an expectation. From childhood we tend to value outcome over openness. Once there the trigger has been set and disappointment is not far behind. I think openness is to choose a new way of being. One that must at first be seen as a concept to explore, and secondly, an idea we begin to practice with and touch with our emotions. Like the first time we mentally agreed to participate in the activity of walking.

"Openness isn't the end; it's the beginning" Margaret Heffernen

To live in openness is a choice, the opportunities to invest in it, is the gift. Destination Obscured is but one of those gifts. The gift of the unknown!

We here at Destination Obscured would wish to send our love out to those that have dedicated their lives to attempting to see the unseen. Tony Robbins, Esther Perel, Lewis Howes, Marisa Peer, Erwin McManus, Brene Brown, Gabor Mate, Caroline Leaf, Don Miguel Ruiz, Edith Eva Eger, Dr, Joe Dispenza, Ryan Holiday, Richard Paul Evans, Eckhart Tolle, and Robert Greene.