Mixed messages

[pjthompson]

So yesterday, the quote and the blog post pushed me one way, but on the drive home I heard The Girl On Her Way by Maia Sharp and that pushed me another. You can read the article and hear the song here (sorry, couldn't find a YouTube, et al.), but these are the lyrics that pushed me:


How long can she be the girl on her way
Before she's just the woman who never got there?
...Everything that almost came
Every spark that never made a flame...


So I don't know what the universe is telling me. I've been wondering that for a couple of months now. Maybe it's just a babbling random idiot, signifying nothing.

Maybe I need to redefine myself and my goals and stop worrying about the universe.

I have no answers. And don't really expect any from outside my own heart. That's the real crucible of hope, despair, or acceptance. All the answers are there, if we can just sort them out from amongst the rags and bones.

Comments

[hollailama.livejournal.com]

The quote about men over seventy and the blog post about bigfoot? (kidding :p) (unless that's really what you meant? :P)

I think if the universe is telling you not to pursue something you are passionate about, you should definitely ignore the universe. I like the Lincoln quote best of the recent ones. Pursuing a passion can be its own reward. It keeps us vital.

[pjthompson]

Ha! No, the blog post mentioned below the Lincoln quote on querying/rejection.

As to the other, I don't know if the universe is telling me that or if I'm telling me that. I've been pursuing this a long time and I'm tired. The writing is here to stay, but maybe not other parts of that pursuit. I don't know yet.

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

wow, those are great lyrics.

[pjthompson]

It's a great song.