Heart Reading … Day 60
What to do about the heart’s orphans?
Being passionate about things is the mark of active love. We engage with life in so many ways — we make art, we write, we deliver speeches, we perform, we create things, complete projects that reflect this passion, this unique or personal perspective. Our creations can take on a life of their own, they can stimulate others’ creations, they can remain incomplete, unfinished, and they can fade into oblivion.
What to do with the things we have birthed? Children certainly take on a life of their own — thankfully! Some things don’t have such a clear and obvious trajectory; some things remain in limbo needing a new twist or spark or perspective. And sometimes we keep creating more and more new things that don’t reach their intended destination — we leave our creations orphaned.
What about the level of energy needed to sustain the passion for whatever motivated the “thing” in the first place?
Today is one of those days that my moments of daydreaming had me remembering times where my energy level seemed never-ending, limitless. It would be easy for me to believe that this was a factor of my youth, but today my son said his energy is focused on getting through each day (i.e. not dreaming up schemes to design and test out on the world). And given a few other conversations today that echoed his sentiment of being “all full up” or even bone weary — as a matter of course — low energy levels are clearly not solely a factor of age.
We have this incredible universal tool called the world wide web. Isn’t it entirely logical to believe that it could — and should — be a tool implemented for connecting all of our creative passions, our half-completed projects with other’s half-completed projects without leaving us utterly mentally, physically, and emotionally fatigued by the extraneous profit-making schemes that we don’t see but know in our heart of hearts operate behind the scenes?
My heart today is wishing for a home for all of our individual and collective creations and inspired passions.
