roots and wings........

facing the sun........taking in the warmth

There is a big difference in having roots and being rooted.

A free ebb and flow of growth is allowed when one has roots, whereas there seems to be a stagnancy related to the sense of feeling rooted. You can't move. You're stuck, and possibly afraid to allow for new scenery, new experiences and new ideas. Unique ideas are verbotten. It's encumbering to feel so rooted in one place, or with one set of people in your life.

My way or the highway is the theme for "being rooted."

Bureaucracy, for example is riddled with rooted people and unmoving policies. Unable to become disentangled, the people who live within the narrow box of policies and guidelines can never take a step towards another with an open armed sense of empathy. Rather, they live with their blinders on, allowing the policies and guidelines to breed discontent and breathe disconnect.

Perpetuated by fear, drawn in by sepiatic versions of a colourful dramatic world inhabited by living breathing human beings whose needs are plenty and whose stories are unique, the rooted bureaucrat wraps their overgrown roots around their apathy. They will not move on any request. They will never ever go the extra mile for someone in need. Why? Because they don't even hear the request. They don't see the face behind the request. They simply are programmed to respond robotically embedded to an interpretation of truth which has overgrown entangled roots.

To have roots, on the other hand, is to have a foundation to breathe in the oxygen needed to grow outwardly, upwardly and inwardly. To have roots means the ability to move your limbs, your feet, your thinking. To have roots stems from the exploratory ability to STEP outside of the proverbial box.

thank you pip :)

Shift happens!!
That's the theme accompanying the idea of "having roots."

It's where ideas and actions grow from nurtured dreams........where the foundation is fed by beliefs and values which are reviewed and reconstituted. It is where optimism fosters hope. To have roots is to be able to step towards another in need with an open heart to listening with empathy.

Bureaucracy is in dire need of the free thinking creatively nurtured by a sense of roots. Unfortunately, it's the rooted who somehow manage to float upward into the spheres of where decisions are made. Armed with myopic management styles, fearful of making a mistake or sticking their necks out for another, the rooted continue to grow straight up into the stratosphere, kissing asses along the way and scheming to get rid of the real leaders.......the ones who serve.

So what often happens to the people who have free flowing roots..........? They get the frig out of there and open up a hot dog stand on the beach in Ogonquit, Maine and live happily ever after meeting others and having the best conversations.

Well..............sometimes they stay and quietly (well not so quietly because their enthusiasm sometimes makes them shout out their red feelings) go about their business meeting and working with others all the while learning enriching life lessons and having the best conversations.

Let's strive to let shift happen.........
in all it's colourful open ended glory
yeah.........why not?

Thanks again to the wonderful women and other contributors of sunday scribblings......for the great word prompt "rooted." BTW, isn't that an Aussie slang word for snogging? Just wondering?