Who do you write for?

I may have mentioned my passion for writing once or three times before. I always have ideas swirling around my head like a pensieve, but there's been a bit of a bumpy barrier to getting them down. I feel like so many of my thoughts and ideas are unoriginal, I fossick around in others' writing so often that barely any of my ideas, thoughts, curiosities or wonderings seem original. And why would I just regurgitate what's out there?

After some great conversations with an A Class human being (JD - that's you), I've sat and percolated what she's said and come to the following conclusion. This is my space. It's a place for me to record what I like, how I like. The purist in me struggles internally with the notion of not clearly defining the audience, but after sitting with that for a while - I think I'm ok. Some posts are purely for me, and some are to share. If people get something out of what I write for myself - how bloody amazing. If not, then it's not for them and maybe someday I will write something that tickles their tastebuds.

I've also come to realise that it's super important for me to record what I want, even if I think I've taken it from somewhere else (giving credit where it's due of course). Each sentence I read, every lyric I hear, each quote I stumble upon are ingested by me through my own filter of experiences. The ones that resonate stick, while the others are swept away into the filing cabinets of subconscious. The stickiest ones are the ones that become the threads that are woven into the fabric of my being - and that is the most wonderfully important thing that I have to share.

This also shifted a wee stone for me, and underneath I found that I have far more self-limiting beliefs than I realise. I'm excited to unearth a few more and change them for the better. How absolutely amazing is it that as human beings we are able to grow in this way. That as we open our hearts and our minds we have the ability to change our beliefs, which in turn influences our thoughts, words, actions, habits, values, and destiny.