Should We Bother Dreaming
Oct. 21st, 2011 04:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
…all the well-meaning voices telling us what we should or should not do will start to feel like strings we can't cut through.
I've been moaning about it long enough – I've been thinking enough about it for even longer, now what I have to do is go out and do it… be it… live it. After a couple of years of not participating, this year I'm doing NaNoWriMo again, as much to give myself a kick up the arse with Use'ara as anything else. Maybe having made that decision, others will follow about other things that may or may not be more important.
I'm sure there will be people out there that see this writing project of my little more than a silly pie-in-the-sky dream or whatever, who'll think I should forget about it, pull my head out of the clouds, however you want to put it, but whatever they might think, I am grounded enough to know it's not going to solve all my problems, make me rich overnight or even make me at all famous – that's not why I want to write it. I want to write it because it's been in my head for too many years – and then having written it, of course I want people to read it and hopefully enjoy it… and if I don't 'cut those strings' now, I'll never get started, and I might as well just give up even having dreams and aspirations… and what an unhealthy psyche I'll have then.
If you try to comprehend air
before breathing it,
you will die.
…all the well-meaning voices telling us what we should or should not do will start to feel like strings we can't cut through.
I've been moaning about it long enough – I've been thinking enough about it for even longer, now what I have to do is go out and do it… be it… live it. After a couple of years of not participating, this year I'm doing NaNoWriMo again, as much to give myself a kick up the arse with Use'ara as anything else. Maybe having made that decision, others will follow about other things that may or may not be more important.
I'm sure there will be people out there that see this writing project of my little more than a silly pie-in-the-sky dream or whatever, who'll think I should forget about it, pull my head out of the clouds, however you want to put it, but whatever they might think, I am grounded enough to know it's not going to solve all my problems, make me rich overnight or even make me at all famous – that's not why I want to write it. I want to write it because it's been in my head for too many years – and then having written it, of course I want people to read it and hopefully enjoy it… and if I don't 'cut those strings' now, I'll never get started, and I might as well just give up even having dreams and aspirations… and what an unhealthy psyche I'll have then.
