Do It Wrong

Obsession is a way of organizing our lives so that we never have to deal with the hard part - the part between being two years old and dying, 
Geneen Roth writes on her Facebook profile.

She's right of course. It's way easier to involve yourself to the point of obsession in others or in the problems of addiction, ego or the world, than it is to silence your inner critic or embrace your own frailty.

Florence - of Florence and the Machine - seems to have it down though. To me she's got a natural kindness to her, as if she accepts the toing and froing of the creative process.

It's quite hard to string all of these pieces of past, present and future and other 
different influences all together. A lot of thought went into what songs should 
go on here to make it seem like a cohesive body of work. I think it's like a scrapbook.

I think she's right too. Life and work and relationships are all patchwork'ish, put together
of good days and bad, of good and bad decissions, and of good and bad interpretations
of what happened.

It follows that doing it wrong is just as important as doing it right, falling down as
important as getting back up.

Evolution Makes You Versatile

How Writers Evolve is a wicked article on Men With Pens.
It's by Vangile Makwakwa, a writer and spoken word poet, who digs deep
into the need to grow and evolve personally.

We aren’t scared of change itself. We’re scared of the consequences that 
change brings, she states. And it does ring true to me. Change is a given,
often a welcomed on, as it might as well be, since time ruins regrets for all of us.

Or as Keith puts it: No regrets. No. What goes down, goes down, 
and it's how you deal with it that counts.

And still I sometimes struggle with the concept of the ever changing life.
I get afraid of facing the consequences of my changing, of growing in a new or
different direction, fearing that if I leave "old" truths behind, it erases the meaning
it once had to me.

Not true, but that's how change can feel to even the most easy going of us.

Ergo I'll give Vangile's words some more thought and reflect on her 3 tips:

1: Reconnect with your personal mission
2: Acquire new knowledge and techniques
3: Build a tribe of like-minded people

Sannyasa

The Sanskrit word sannyas means 'laying or setting aside, abandoning, 
or giving up', writes Barbara De Angelis as I'm reading about "liberation".

Not giving up, the only way to leave this band is in a casket, can probably
count as the Keith way, and I admire his strenght. Absolutely. Am in awe.

Still, me, myself and I need to take other steps to let go of looking back, getting
stuck in a sadness from what could have been instead of opening up to the present,
embracing it. The Now.