SSF: “Twenty Eight Feet”

Last updated on: February 2, 2015 at 1:19 pm by Joseph Susanka

SSF: “Twenty Eight Feet” 2015-02-02T13:19:09-07:00 Joseph Susanka

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My life’s complicated. And I love it.

Sure, there are times when it threatens to overwhelm. Every day — sometimes, it feels like “every second of every day” — I find myself surrounded by a sea of dependent little humans. A sea that occasionally feels just as likely to wash me away as it is to sustain me. A sea that prevents me from doing as I please, and keeps me from drifting aimlessly and without attachment. A sea of little personalities that renders both my life’s complexity and my affection for it true in ways that I couldn’t even imagine when we first began.

But I love a life of simplicity, as well. I don’t want it instead of what I’ve got, because I wouldn’t trade this for anything. But I love the reminders a simple(r) life can bring; reminders of how close we can (and should) be to our Creator; reminders of the directness and simplicity we must fight to maintain underneath all the layers of modern “living;” reminders of the necessity of real, human connections that can get so easily lost as we go about our complicated daily lives.

A life captures by films like this.

A short documentary about David Welsford, who has given up the luxuries of land in search for happiness and adventure on a 50 year old wooden boat he restored from a scrap heap.

There’s a lyric towards the end of the film — a line from Ben Howard’s “Old Pine” — that really struck me as I was watching (and listening). A line that David himself is struggling to understand himself as he acknowledges that he’s mostly unattached, and that he’s not entirely sure if that’s a good thing. One that helps me realize that all the complexifications and the dependency — the overwhelming times and their feisty, hilarious little causes — are things I’ll look back on with fondness and gratitude.

The simplicity in the midst of the complexity.

I’ve come to know that memories
Were the best things you ever had…

…I’ve come to know the friends around you
Are all you’ll always have.

Attribution(s): All artwork, publicity images, and stills are the property of Kevin A. Fraser and all respective creators and/or distributors.

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