Thursday, May 31, 2007 @ 11:38 pm
passion0
Before I begin - I have to let ya all know that I owe quite a few of you pictures for your 15 minute + calls. I have NOT forgotten. I repeat: I have not forgotten. I will be sending out these pictures by this weekend. I promise. You have my word. I’m surprised that not one of you have emailed me a reminder yet. This isn’t an invite to start now - I pride myself in having some of the more sensible callers around…I’m just surprised at how overly patient alot of you are being. I appreciate that. A little babying of CeCe goes a terribly long way and I shall not take advantage of the extra care you are bestowing on me. Damn - I really liked that last sentence I just wrote. I sounded all prim and proper - like some librarian with her hair piled up into a tight bun and little black rimmed spectacles that wears skirts a bit too tight to totally pull off the whole “prim” look.
Last night I spoke to a friend of mine for a long time. It seems like suddenly I got this whole “job” thing. He said that there are tons of people doing jobs that they don’t necessarily like. Just keep on working because they need to pay bills - and eat - etc. I just started to think that - I don’t know - I got a bit scared. Like I don’t want to live that kind of a life. I want to work and do more than just “exist” to work and pay for things. I want to do something in my life that I enjoy and that trillions of other people can’t do. I want my work to be my passion. I want to feel like if I didn’t do x,y, or z - I would cease to breathe.
I know that there are probably several eyes rolling right now at this post. Maybe thinking I’m FINALLY showing my age - and being age appropriate. Because it’s only someone who is 18 and just starting school that thinks she can actually make a living doing something that “feeds her spirit” or is her “passion” - but ya know - some of my most favorite people in the world are doing jobs that are ALL ABOUT their passion. Are they just freaks of nature?
One of my callers today told me that his passion is music. But for reasons he couldn’t get into at the time - he couldn’t do it anymore and is now doing something totally different. He lit up when he talked about music, though. I could hear it in his voice. And he told me that not doing music anymore for him was like …missing a limb. I feel that way about writing. Like if I was told I couldn’t write anymore - I would just feel … dead and lost inside. He hasn’t even picked up an instrument, I don’t think, for several years - maybe. I don’t know why he would want to do that to himself. I mean - ok - you can’t do music for a living - but you still need to play, don’t you? Isn’t it like breathing? Isn’t that what passion is really about? Feeling something so strongly that in order to breath in - it aches just from the sheer joy of it?
So if you’re reading this, Z, pick up your guitar - or go sit by your piano - and play. Just play and breathe and remember the part about music that wasn’t killing you - but was feeding your spirit and bringing you joy. Have a little homecoming - just you and your instruments - play something first that makes you weep - and then play something that brings you joy - and remember what it’s like to have passion in your life and - I don’t know - embrace it! Cuz I don’t think it’s too late. Music always waits around for us to come back and claim it - like a good friend, it only wants to love you up and have you delight in it/them.
So what’s your passion?





