i love my work.
and i feel lucky the question i ask myself is not,
what can i do?
but how can i do what i do,
better?
i can't help but feel sometimes,
all this navel gazing i do,
is a privilege of someone in my position.
and by that i mean someone who is working.
someone with money in the bank for everyday necessities,
and the occasional perk.
someone who is in love,
with someone who loves her back.
someone who had parents (despite their flaws) who loved her.
someone who was lucky enough to make it through most of school,
and can enjoy the magic of the written word.
someone who doesn't have to survive each day,
just to exist.
yeah, when you are that lucky,
you have time to meditate on life:
to dream bigger,
to battle your inner demons...
because you are led,
through books, the internet, friends,
to others who inspire you.
support you.
encourage you.
and finally to a place where you feel the sense of opportunity,
believe in the possibility.
this is the journey i have been on,
and i want to be able to offer a glimpse of this to those i work with.
most of whom have never thought about their potential
(probably never even believed they had any)
and whose lives have been littered with misery, heartbreak and crime.
but where do i begin?
how do you start?
these are the questions i've been pondering tonight...
what questions have you been asking yourself today?
6 comments:
This is so very beautiful Pen. :)
i hear you, dear pen*
this has surely been an essential, unfolding & transforming inquiry in my journey...
i deeply, deeply, deeply appreciate your voice, dear being.
xo,
gem
very reflectively questions. i suppose the answer begins with telling them ... showing them, that they have potential and that it matters.
I think about this every day. And - as I think I mentioned somewhere else - hearing a 7/7 survivor saying that she recovered with the knowledge that life brings with it responsibilites has made me sit up and think even more about it. I think the privileged, and I am surely one of them, can only make sense of that privilege if they use it. That may mean they brighten the life of a single person a day or it may mean bigger things....they're equally important.
You do so much, at work and here and, I'm willing to bet, in your home life that I think you can afford to be gentle with yourself.
You're not standing outside this question, you're in there. Answering it.
x
Moving through this post of beautiful gratitude, I have been led into a moment of prayerful thanks.
We are lucky and privileged to have this life and its opportunity to seek wisdom.
Each path is different, and I thank you, pen, for letting me walk on your sun-dappled path. The wild flowers are magical :)
You have already started...open your heart a little bit more...and love yourself to the ends of this world!
Life is good...and yes, you are one lucky lady! :0)
Big hugs to you xx
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