Stop Chasing the Bird: A Looney Tune for Your Mind

A Dusty Note from the Desert

A dusty note found pinned to a canyon wall. Scribbled by Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius, who finally sat down long enough to write it.

Dear Fellow Chaser,

If you have ever woken up and felt like you are back at the start line, new plan, same old you, trust me. I know the feeling. Somewhere out here in the dusty desert of your mind, you are me — Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius. Eyes locked on that smug little blur called the Roadrunner... Beep beep!

I have tried everything. Rocket powered roller skates. Tunnels painted on canyon walls. Fireworks strapped to my back. Catapults, booby traps, boulders with fuses. Every clever ACME device you can imagine. None of it works. The Roadrunner zips right through. I stand there blinking as the boulder rolls back on me. Again.

It is funny in a cartoon. It is exhausting in real life.

And it is never really about the bird, is it? I do not chase because I am hungry for food. If that were true, I would have ordered a cheeseburger from ACME and saved myself the bruises. I chase because I am hungry for something more, that feeling that if I can just catch that bird, I will finally be enough. It is not a meal. It is a script buried deep inside me, whispering that I must succeed at any cost. That I must keep running until I feel whole.

Do you do the same? The new plan. The next gadget. The next clever trick to make life bend to your will. We all paint tunnels on stone walls hoping reality will slip through. We chase that job, that partner, that version of ourselves that finally gets it right. Then we believe we will be done. Free. Fulfilled.

But the lesson has been here the whole time, right in the dust cloud. I have learned, finally, to sit down sometimes. Scorched and covered in soot, I can just rest. I am still a coyote. The Roadrunner is still out there, doing laps. But I can see the desert for the first time. The shapes the cliffs make at sunset. The hush that falls when I stop scheming. Maybe that is the real secret out here. I never needed to catch the bird to be whole.

The chase is a habit. Trying to control life, people, and every outcome is just another ACME contraption. And life keeps slipping through it anyway. But here is what they never show in the cartoon. You can stop. You can catch yourself chasing, laugh at your clever plan, and let the bird run.

The chase will come again. That is all right. We are wired for it. But with a little awareness, a little unscripted mind, you can smile when you see the next ACME box arrive. You can breathe, drop the blueprint, and let life do what it does.

Real freedom is not in catching the Roadrunner. It is in remembering you never had to.

Take a breath. Watch the dust settle. See what you can rest inside you, even if the world keeps running.

What is your Roadrunner right now? And what happens if you let it run?

Beep beep.

Sincerely,
Wile E. Coyote, Unscripted

Thanks for wandering the desert with me for a moment. Funny how a childhood cartoon can sneak in a lesson we spend our whole lives trying to catch. May you spot your own Roadrunner today...and maybe...this time just let it run. Hope you enjoyed this little unscripted moment.

Be well and always remember to JUST BREATHE!

Brian, The Unscripted Mind.

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