Corey’s Finale, Champion of the Dream
June 23, 2009
This is the Courage Award. It goes to Corey Blake for his courage and tenacity to tell a story that has never been told.
He did so with all his effort, all his might, and all his energy.
This wasn’t easy.
Stories like this can live inside us forever and never be told. But Corey had the knowing that he needed to bring it to the light of day, and he did.
What was the real breakthrough here? Was it the product or was it the process? Who’s to tell? Corey chose to dive in to some emotionally difficult places and that wasn’t easy. But those are exactly the stories that need to be told because they are have the most juice. And they have a universal meaning for all of us.
The pearl of Corey’s journey is the turning point moment between “The Critic” and “The Wimp”. Each of us has these two seeming opponents inside of us. One is very weak and the other a kind of brute that tells us to ‘just get up and move on with it.” That is a common theme in the psyche.
In Corey’s journey when we were drawing out this story, there was a very tender and emotional moment when he realized that The Wimp was really the stronger one of the two.
The Wimp was the one that had the ability to sit through the pain. And when we are down, that is exactly what each of us needs on our journey. We need someone to just sit in the room with us until we’re able to heal and move on.
When we got deeper into the story, we saw that The Critic was really shouldering a huge burden. He was so concerned with what people thought of him. He was always upholding an image of himself so people wouldn’t think he’s weak. Again a common archetype that we live.
The touching line from The Wimp to The Critic was, “My wish for you is that you would put the burden down.”
That is when I personally welled up and knew that this was a story that needed to be told.
Corey is still working on his story and that may take some time. We can’t rush these things. But we have travelled safely in the land of myth and story. The passage has been made to the other side.
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