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CNN – What’s Important (Launch Video - Extended)
Writer: Loren Schiller
What’s important.It’s not a statement.It’s not a proclamation.Or a royal edict issued.Nor a decree from on high.
What’s important is nothing echoed down from the mountain topOr decided in a bubble of steel and glass tower by those who claim to “makenews.”Because you make news.News that only matters
Because it matters to the world outside our doors.It’s what you, the world, tell us.
You tell us…The truth of what’s importantBecause of where you liveHow you thinkWho we all areAs a people on this planet in this time.
What’s important.Think about those words.Where they come from.
Not from a single shining source of light radiating from a central point
But an endless constellation of billions of starsBeating heartsLiving soulsIt is the collective of all that is being aliveThe sum total of…Every dreamEvery hope
Every fearEvery ideaEvery custom
Every culture
What’s important is no constantIt’s no fixed variableNo statue
No pillarNo river frozen solidIt’s pulsing
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CNN – What’s Important (Launch Video - Extended)
Writer: Loren Schiller
MovingRacing aheadTo the collective rhythm of every heartbeatEvery footstepThat takes us into the next momentAnd re-defines every moment that came before it.
What’s important isn’t part of usSome aspect or nuance or detail.It is us.The great cathedral our humanity built.And the blueprint for where we go from here.
It’s our creationOur evolution
And our revolutionThe only reason we’ve dreamedLovedSchemedConqueredAnd wept.
News didn’t build all that.News didn’t make these things mean everything.They mean everything because that’s just what it means to be alive
Alive in the world that topples… and erupts
Shudders… And shattersTakes its first breath… and it’s lastDoes the impossible… And dies tryingThinks… And buildsRe-thinks… And re-builds
News is not the reason why…
We dreamExploreSuffer
EscapeEntertainRebelExplodeCreate
Pray
News not what matters
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CNN – What’s Important (Launch Video - Extended)
Writer: Loren Schiller
Life matters.Life.The collective of every storyThey’re not our storiesThey’re yoursPast, present, and future
What’s important is what liesBeneath the confusion and the noise and the fogSo that our voice is nothing more than…A pathway in the woodsA flare in the night
A guide back homeTo where you liveTo what you believe
To what it means to be in this world.Alive.