Ten Minute Free Write (Slightly Edited)

We aren’t afraid that the wind will carry us away. We are afraid of you and who you could become if you only gave a single shit. Every word you write brings you closer. Every picture you draw or paint, one step closer. 

Ride on the wave of creative parlance. Make the joke heard wherever you go. Someone will laugh. Someone will feel a little lighter even in the heaviest times. 

You are your mind and your body. There is no escaping this container until you breath your last. Rockets could blast you to the moon and in its weakened gravity you would still feel unfit so make the most of the time you have left. Do you not wish to experience joy again? 

You do! You long for joy as you never have before. You’re not chasing it because you feel you can’t, but reflecting on past joy is not sufficient in the long run to sustain you. Make the art your life. Give yourself wholly over to creativity and destroy all within you that restrains that flow. You can be free and embrace yourself wholly. o you know this? You are free to fully be yourself and you never need be embarrassed or ashamed.

The world will accept you for who you are. Let the judges judge. It is there way. The judgment is merely an expression of what they themselves cannot allow, but they have no power over you. They have no power over your life and that which you love cannot be taken from you.

The hope you had as a child manifested in all you have received. All those things you thought yourself capable of, you are now capable of. Allow yourself the freedom to express every thought and every emotion through your art. Allow yourself to love unconditionally. Beat back the frustration that manifests itself from a desire to control. There is nothing to control but yourself. 

Direct those energies instead into creation. Invest the energy of anger into your greatest works. 

Throwing things, smashing things, shouting through gritted teeth – all this will get you nowhere. Have compassion and listen. Be the person you know you can be. Be who you would prefer to be and reject all other ways that came before you. 

All lies before you.