WHATEVER YOUR HEART NEEDS YOU TO DO, DO IT.
I have officially traded studying (for now) for a 9-5. Its been two months and this morning I was going through the drafts of everything I wrote in my notepad and most of the pieces date back to sometime in 2016. Unedited and unfinished. You can imagine how disappointed I was in myself. Writing for me has been synonymous with living. That's where I find my freedom, it's my most treasured commodity and I was sad to realise that I had let work tire me so much to even pick up my pen and paper like I used to.
And I came to this rather sad realisation, on a Monday morning while commuting to work. And right there, my answer lay. That every day I lose 4 hours of my time in a taxi to and from work. In those hours, I have thought of poems and stories that have never really seen life outside my imagination. And from there, the second thing I realised was how true it is when they say you will always have enough time to do the things you love, things that feed your soul...
I call this a 'Gqi!' moment for one’s imagination. This is when your heart is filled with joy because you are doing something that makes you happy, something so small with an avalanche effect on your dreams and aspirations.
Yes, that's how happy writing makes me. My words may never be perfectly articulated all the time, but they are my written hallelujah, they are a voice for my thoughts, so to me, they are as perfect as they can get. All these realisations are actually just me daring myself to use the free time while commuting to write away. Because there is no such thing as 'I don't have time', especially when referring to things that warm your soul and give you a purpose.
And what I want you to take from this, basically, do what you have to do with the time you've got today, and may that be something what will have your soul dancing and thanking you at the end of the day.
