Everyone has some creative endeavor to immerse in, whether it’s
creating a family, a home, a career, art, or community. If we don’t follow our
heart’s desire, then we may turn that energy into perfecting things around us,
redecorating, revising relationships, or even destroying things in order to
rebuild them. In my life, I’ve lost the same 30 pounds multiple times, then
gained them to make that my project, yet again.
If you don’t have a bigger project, your health becomes a
project. I’ve been saying no to flour
and sugar without saying yes to what I truly want, which is to write new ideas,
revise old essays, and publish it all so actual people read my work.When I make my top priorities losing weight, getting the perfect wardrobe,
keeping care of an already fine home, or fretting about teaching something that
will save or at least transform lives, then I dissipate the energies that could
go into writing, revising, editing, rewriting, imagining, sharing, listening,
telling stories, and being filled with wonder.
I don’t receive new ideas until I put the current ones
occupying my mind on paper and release them to be critiqued, expanded upon, or affirmed. It really is that easy. The food always
slips into the background and becomes delicious fuel rather than my main source
of entertainment or the bane of my existence when I put my energy behind what I
know to be the real point of being alive—sharing all of me with whoever wants
it.
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