No time is wasted. While we employ its linear concept to organize and plan and schedule our lives, it doesn’t really factor in to the grand scheme of all things.
Tag: creativity
Creativity thrives on an openness and innocence (or perhaps wilful ignorance), a trust in the unknown and a delightful anticipation of the unexpected. It calls for a certain level of restriction, pressure or limitation: a time constraint, a budget limit, an equipment or materials limit, inexperience, weather conditions, client preferences, Mercury or Mars in retrograde, etc.
We can spend so much time worrying about whether we’re living our purpose that we forget to live. The pressure to become who we imagine we’re meant to be can be just as paralyzing as never daring to try. Perhaps the trick isn’t to have it all figured out, but to meet ourselves where we are and take the next step from there.
Sometimes, the things that come easiest to us become the very things that keep us from discovering what else we’re capable of.
Sometimes, the thing we love most becomes the very thing we struggle hardest to let ourselves be.