Now resuming a daily exercise of writing whatever comes to mind without thought or analysis, here is today's piece:
Courage to Follow our Heart's Desires
All this now flows through me. With nowhere to go, I am free to pursue whatever route I like, from the heart, and as I do so I touch upon a new area for discovery, an area often neglected in daily living that is the very important subject of personal satisfaction that comes from pursuing an active life, fulfilled in the delivery of what makes the heart sing.
This endeavour to follow one’s heart is often overlooked in favour of safer pursuits such as a regular job paying generous rewards in order to fund a lifestyle to which one has become addicted. But this is ultimately a crushing experience for the soul, leaving us hollow, shallow and wholly unfulfilled. The more we get, the more we want. In order to set us free, more is required: the courage to pursue that which calls to us in the face of reason and logic.
It is this that marks a person as worthy of happiness, not the things one does from day-to-day in pursuit of mythical material happiness. Through worthy endeavour one arrives daily at a point of reflection on one’s activities and, in so doing, is given the reward, the acknowledgement of the day’s achievements and how it spells our heart’s true desires.
There is nothing like it at all, no better way to express and fulfil oneself. No surer route to instant happiness. How sad that so many cling to the illusion in the hope that one day they will find happiness, for tomorrow never comes and only today has any meaning or true hope for happiness. This then is the gift of life, living in the moment, free of expectation, fulfilled through courageous pursuit of one’s heart’s desires.
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