(Make sure to click on the Special Father’s Day announcement called “DiR Collaborate” after you read this post.)
Time travel is real.
I may not be as cool as Marty McFly or as brilliant as Doc Brown. I may not have the Delorean undercover in my garage. Yet I, can travel in time. I just close my eyes, punch in any date from my past, activate the flux capacitor, and jam the throttle to 88 miles per hour. And… ZAP! A blaze of lightning and fire trails in my wake. It’s quite simple really.
“Dad, tell us a story from when you were in the 2nd grade.”
My brain a.k.a the “flux capacitor” pulls up the file called “2nd grade” and plays the memories as pictures in an animation. Once I see a picture that the kids haven’t seen before, I describe the picture as a story.
“Okay. Let me tell you about the time when I escaped math class to build card castles.”
The kids laugh and maybe even learn something from my stupidity or brilliance as a kid. Then they ask again.
“5th grade? When you were 15? …5?”
The age or grade doesn’t matter. The animation stores them all and I can go there, instantaneously. Sometimes the details are a little fuzzy, but most are in high definition as I can remember landscapes, floor plans, the details leading up to the story, and my feelings of sadness, anger, or comedy during it.
Then I add Dadnamics to make the story come to life all over again by telling the story with enthusiasm and silliness. And lately, I added creativity and adventure by actually taking my kids to the place where it happened many, many years ago and reenacting it with them. It’s a lot of fun for all and, of course, the kids each have their favorites.
[pullquote align=”normal”]I had no idea that stories from my childhood could create so much connection between me and my kids. That’s real time travel. [/pullquote]
My wife marvels at this gift as she struggles to remember anything from her childhood beyond basic details. If your flux capacitor is malfunctioning or you need some Plutonium from the Libyans, then try this. Pull out the family albums with your kids and see if any fun memories trigger a story.
I also use this gift alone. I’m a storyteller and a writer and I love time travelling to find a new story to tell YOU. And sometimes, I need closure on something or someone from the past. Time travel is the answer because my memories can literally be so real that I truly feel that I am reliving them. Sad memories can resurface at any time in the present as well. Thus this gift is a blessing and a curse.
Marty McFly experienced this. He went back in the past to fix his parents and then he had to go to the future to fix his kids. I can time travel to the future as well. And so can YOU. The steps are in so many self-help books. You just need a vision and a Definite Major Purpose like Napoleon Hill writes about in Think and Grow Rich.
[pullquote align=”normal”]I can see the future, speak the future, and work to earn the future that I envision. [/pullquote]
Ideas seem to pop into my flux capacitor. I store them and jam the throttle to 88. I repeat this every time a new idea comes. Over time, a new picture forms like a giant jigsaw puzzle getting filled in. The picture advances to a vision and the vision empowers and energizes me.
YOU were that jigsaw puzzle 6 years ago. I dreamed of a way to use my gifts to move the hearts of fathers toward their children and to build bridges of connection. This jigsaw puzzle is not complete. I see so much more. In fact, check out this exciting Father’s Day announcement.
Allow me to officially introduce DiR CollaborateTM. I hope you decide to JOIN the fun!
