Being Yourself
One of the hardest parts about being creative is the process of separating from your past. More specifically, all the interactions you’ve had with people over the years and any perceived successes and failures that came along with those events.
So every creative act that you commit is a sign of defiance to the version of yourself that is trying to keep you safe.
Sometimes it feels like everyone wants you to show up as the most boring version of yourself possible. Have a reliable job with benefits and take the pension when your time comes.
Yet the creative mind doesn’t always want to play along with the game. It wants something new that’s never been done before.
As someone who doesn’t always get on the bus with this way of thinking, I urge you to continue to work towards being the person who is true to you. Do it for me, even when there are times that I fall short because I’m human and get lost from time to time.
When you meet someone who challenges your aspirations and maybe even doubts your abilities, stand firm in the face of the storm and hold your ground.
thank you - brings to mind an interview I heard last week - poet David Whyte’s take on the “fashionable NOW” - suggesting the NOW as more “the long body” of past / present / future - less isolating, more amalgamating, or morphing - where past and future serve as vital material / inputs - for me this is a helpful, all-inclusive modification to Eckhart Tolle’s take on the NOW, on being, on self