“Get busy living or get busy dying.” ~Andy Dufresne from Shawshank Redemption
This is one of my favorite quotations from one of my favorite movies, Shawshank , starring Morgan Freeman (Red) and Tim Robbins (Andy). The scene in which this is told to Red is after both men has served many years in a maximum security prison somewhere in New England. During their conversation of the impact of being institutionalized, Red mentions to Andy that when they give you life in prison that is exactly what they get…your life. Well, by this point of the movie Andy has about had enough of the prison life and espoused a few more of his philosophical musings to Red that concluded with, “you can either get busy living or get busy dying.”
From a personal growth perspective, I believe you can have a similar scenario… Continue reading
Herm Allen 