I am energized by writers.
I linger in the presence of wordsmiths–those who take their craft seriously. Today I had the pleasure of working with Tom Leveen, author of Zero, Sick, Party, and several other top notch YA novels. Tom has energy, style, and purpose. That last bit is the most infectious. In his presence you believe in the ability of an individual to pursue a dream and through the force of will and desire, make it happen.
One of the life issues I’ve been slogging through lately is “What do I want?” Do I still want what I wanted when I was 7? 14? 21?At what point are we allowed to revisit our dreams and goals? I ask because it seems like there is a point where society locks you into your particular goal/dream/aspiration and uses that as a baseline by which to identify/define you. I spent a good year of posts dancing around the fact that I reached my goals–goals born of a certain era–and was feeling quite motivationally completed and useless. I had no idea what to do next. I struggled with defining new goals –largely because I was satisfied with life and locked into that life. Times change, kids grow, and we should be allowed to want more and be more than we are today. We should be allowed to be what we are capable of being.
I submit that the moment we start to move away from chasing dreams and goals we move into merely getting through the routine of the day. We move from growing to decaying and death–if only on the inside–comes upon swift wings.
Some Thoughts:
- I did this post by hand and recopied it into the blog interface. Old school, meet new school.
- </Scorpion> tries too hard. Just saying. The show adds the element of an outsider ‘a normal person’ or ‘mortal idiot waitress’ who happens to be hot as a way to give the viewer that look in and something to look at. Yeah. Trying too hard.
- You know who else tried too hard? Surface.