Neither the number of steps you take or the length of each stride will truly capture the distance you are prepared to go. Intentions cannot be measured in the same manner as progress. Variables will differ. Progress is marked by miles or minutes (perhaps down to the minutia). An intention itself is more of a variable than a path, yet its guidance (or lack thereof) will have a dramatic effect on actions or accomplishments. If you have an intention without a destination, it is a path only you can determine. It begins with the steps you do or do not take.
In the darkness it is easier to determine what’s on your mind; there are no other voices interrupting your ease. You can whisper, but who will hear you?
Sometimes I want to talk when nobody is around to listen. Often it is the middle of the night and no one is there. At times, the silence is disturbing my peace.
I feel that by now, at this age, I am ready to do whatever the hell I want to do to fulfil my creative self.
Any lesson, rule, inspiration or muse I have absorbed during my rather lengthy tenure on earth has been important, yes, but not crucial to my survival nor the be all and end all I once assumed it was.
Of course, guidance was both observed and appreciated, but it is my observations with my currently and continually developing sense of style that truly guide me. This, along with my insatiable and undeniable curiosity.
If we cease to be curious, we stop evolving.
Art, and my varied attempts to create, provides my fundamental momentum.
What I have learned and what I still need to know is irrelevant. I’ve absorbed what I could at the time and know now what I didn’t then. It’s a matter of time before I will see what is essential to me: progress.
If we stop progressing, are we even living or have we begun dying? I am not ready for that. In fact, I will do whatever I can to creatively keep moving forward. I am most sure there is an art to that.
Be honest. Speak your truth, and say what you mean. It is easy to say, but can be hard to do. It’s difficult at times to put the right words into the proper context, or speak freely. Or honestly. Often there is concern over how you will be seen, or heard, or believed. Truth is, at times, not easy to hear, and it can be even harder to say. Sometimes you might feel it is not enough, because the truth can be so simple. Honest. You may feel that truth is not enough, but it is everything. The hard truth can hurt, the whole truth can be hard to swallow, and the real truth can heal. Be truth. Breathe your truth. Breathe honesty, and breathe it honestly.
