Where the Hell is Matt??
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This viedo contains the adventures of an amazing human that inadvertently created a phenomen that in my opinion shows how connected we all are and that we are not alone. According to his website, he is only dancing. You watch it and draw your own conclusions.
The moment I first laid eyes on this video and listened to the words of the song, I was instantly in a state that reminded me just how connected we are. We should not forget that. We could reduce so much strife in this world if we would just remember that small little detail. It is so small and yet such a large life lesson all at the same time.
I have to take a quick second and include the English translation of the song that was used as the soundtrack. It is as transforming as the video itself. The lyrics to “Praan” were taken from a poem by a Nobel Prize winning Indian author named Rabindranath Tagore. The poem was written in Bengali, and the translation, which is more of an interpretation captures the spirit of the original.
The English version of the poem is called “Stream of Life.”:
The same stream of life
that runs through my veins night and day
runs through the world
and dances in rhythmic measures.
It is the same life
that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth
in numberless blades of grass
and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
It is the same life
that is rocked in the ocean-cradle
of birth and of death,
in ebb and in flow.
I feel my limbs are made glorious
by the touch of this world of life.
And my pride is from the life-throb of ages
dancing in my blood this moment.
Whenever I am feeling lost or confused, overwhelmed by the stresses of life, I load up YouTube on my iphone and watch my bookmarked video of “Where the Hell is Matt” and I am instantly taken back to the first time I saw it and my mood instantly shifts into a positive direction. This is very much a mediation for me. When we are overwhelmed by life, jobs, family, whatever we need to center ourselves, breathe and take a second to meditate and begin again and realize that this life is a precious gift and we should not take one single second for granted.
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