Abraham Lincoln, Oprah, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Michael Jordan, Walt Disney... we all know the list. That inspiring catalog of exceptional human beings who have failed, sometimes repeatedly, but never gave up. People who flourished despite immense hardship. People who emanate the qualities we endlessly try to plant inside ourselves and secretly beseech to grow.
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I hesitate,
watching as you empty a packet of raw sugar into your black coffee. Our silence is broken as your spoon slowly twirls against the glass. The sugar disintegrates. You briefly flash me a smile as you grab another packet. You think I’m judging you. But all I’m thinking about is asking you this one question. I write.
I put it out there. I write. I put it out there. Sometimes social media feels like a school auditorium filled with people on stacked-up boxes, screaming into megaphones. Trying to be heard. To be noticed. To be whole in a world full of pieces. Three Lessons to Empower Your Creativity "THE DREAMERS are the saviors of the world... Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived. I believe everyone is an artist. But if you look around, it’s not uncommon to mostly see “normal”, every-day people looking back at you. Most of these people have ordinary jobs and lead ordinary lives. They tend to their families and bills and obligations just like everybody else. But if you take just a moment to peak beyond the façade of a “normal human” - you will often see some sort of extraordinary creator. |
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