My Favorite Shower
My passion for writing has been developing slowly for the last two years. I started writing, with the intentions of becoming a published author in the summer of 2014. I have written a lot of words since then, but not nearly as many as I would like to have. Realizing how much change and revaluation has happened in the two years since then, brings my mind one thought. Change really is made slowly, and gradually.
I focus too often on the large goals, the seemingly unobtainable dreams that sit for one day. These large and long term focus’s need to be separated and broken down into their own categories so that they do not overwhelm you on a daily basis. You can only be doing one thing in your present moment, as long as you make sure that that one thing brings you joy, and takes you down the path in your chosen direction, you can ask nothing more of yourself. You need to stop stressing out so hard on the larger than life problems and solutions.
Last night, I had an opportunity to watch a meteor shower. It was a perfect example of not sweating the big stuff. I knew about this night and its cosmic events for weeks prior. I had hyped it up in my mind how amazing it would be. When I walked out of work at one in the morning, I looked up into the universe, and the first thing that caught my eyes was a meteor, brilliantly bursting into flame as it was engulfed by our atmosphere. Magical. I watched the rest of the shower from a darkened mountain perch. But after dozens more meteors, I fell asleep. The first one I saw was the best one. It was spontaneous, it didn’t care about my planning, it simply shared its fatal beauty with me when I was least expecting it.
Sometimes we put to much weight on big events or goals in our lives, And the magnitude of such goals weighs us down. It slows our progress of daily actions of what we actually need to be accomplishing. I want to write a book in the future. That doesn’t mean that I need a topic for it now. It means that I have to write every day to improve myself as a writer so that people will want to read, find value, and hopefully pay for my efforts. Simple, not easy. The big goals in life need to be broken down into smaller pieces, just like meteors, so they too can have their shining moments of glory.