I have always thought that everyone is an artist (despite so many people proclaiming not to be) and each individual life is a unique mark on our world. Our routines, how we dress, how we decorate our homes, how we socialize, how we process our thoughts and emotions, etc. is our own unique signature on this shared canvas/mural of life here on Earth. Unique is the key word here. Life isn’t meant to be performed. It is meant to be lived. Life is meant to be lived authentically and completely true to the deepest depths of our own individual souls. That’s when our lives get transformed into breathtaking art.
I used to write this blog every single day of my life, for years, because I felt compelled to do it. For years and years, writing this blog daily felt as necessary to me as food and water. I think that this is because writing is how I best process my experiences and my thoughts and my emotions which evolve from all of my experiences. And, believe me, I had a lot of “backlog” to process. But then, somewhere down the line, writing the blog on a daily basis slowly morphed into becoming more of a required chore, an expectation of myself that I projected onto others, whom I didn’t want to let down. Writing the blog on a daily basis started to feel like a pressure, and something that I forced, no matter what. (For good or bad, stubborness is enormous part of my own individual “art.”) Writing the blog on a daily basis became part of a rigid, cage-like structure that I had created for myself. And in my experience, structure inhibits flow. And that’s sad, because the real magic is ALWAYS found in the flow.
If you are reading this and you are feeling “stuck” in some part of your life, give yourself permission to switch it up. As Peta Kelly says, “Get up and live.” Your material is from living. Your creation is your life. And our shared canvas, needs your unique stamp. It’s not the same without it.
Are you passing on love or are you passing on pain? Heal your pain and pass on love.