 25 Apr 2007 @ 21:33, by Unknown
The famous line from the movie Fields of Dream, "If you build it, he will come" was voted as the #39 movie quote by the American Film Institute.
Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice in his corn field tell him, "If you build it, he will come." He interprets this message as an instruction to build a baseball field on his farm, upon which appear the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other seven Chicago White Sox players banned from the game for throwing the 1919 World Series. When the voices continue, Ray seeks out a reclusive author to help him understand the meaning of the messages and the purpose for his field.
Sometimes, though, just building something and expecting that "it" would all happen on its own and that the relevant people would come and play/work in your field and that "various teams would just pick their own mission and go to work" (sic) is just wishful thinking, isn't it? It might just take a little bit more than that---make that "a lot more" sometimes, depending on external circumstances and what kind of a ball game one is aiming for.
Sometimes external circumstances are with you, and sometimes they are against you. But sometimes, well, sometimes those circumstances, they are not just simply "external" at all, are they?
The Gaels have a saying for this, "Tús maith, leath na hoibre," and so do the Koreans, "시작이 반이다.": . . . . .starting is half the task.
Do or do not---there is no try.
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