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So then why is it hard whenever we look in the mirror to believe there are also forces inside us for growth.
All too often we hear the faint whisper of our life's calling beckoning us to "rise up warrior creator, warrior singer, warrior musician, warrior songwriter, warrior artist, come and do your creative work. You've been put on this earth to do it and only you can express it your way. Come, rise up, you can do it, use your gift and your time wisely, come, there's work to be done."
And for a moment in time we imagine our warrior selves working in the higher life and it feels beautiful, magical, possible.
Yet, even before we rub the sleep out of our eyes to follow the call the sweet beckoning of our creative dreams is drowned out by all the noise and alluring siren songs - buy, buy, buy, spend, spend, spend, do this, come here, have fun - you deserve the good life because you work hard for it!
And so we consume, then go to work in jobs we hate, selling our soul to the merchants of consumerville and we're slaves to pay it all back with interest.
It's harder to say yes and follow our creative life's call and say no to all that other stuf.
But that's what warriors do. They are seasoned professionals in the art of war.
We're in the battlefield and the stakes for our time and effort are high.
I love this post - yes it is so important to value dreams, time, creative force. Here's my adjusted version of your "I owe it to myself to ... " ditty:
ReplyDelete"I owe it to myself to be committed to my highest potential. Therefore I do the task right now to bring it about".
To me success is built of all the little decisions made along the way to "do the thing". And not the other thing, the downbeat job, the consumerville thing, the lazy way out. It's easy to do the better thing, the task to bring about the greatest potential, if you break up the task into bite sized chunks and munch away at it day by day.
Love your work Zelda!
OK, gotta fly, a dream beckons!