One Single Impression: Wanting

From June 9, 2012

Stop Carrying your heartLike an empty bowl.
Stop Doubting your heart.Love what you love.
Go To that unchartered place.Love without permission.
Go.Feast on flowers.
I have taken this week's prompt of wanting in a contrary way--as in, stop wanting.  It seems to me in so many ways we make a virtue of going without what we want.  That makes sense in the context of saving up for what we want, earning what we want, being ready for what we want.  Quiet desperation for its own sake is not a virtue, though; it is a cop-out.  

So often people go without what they want for the sake of others.  So often people like to think they are denying themselves for the sake of others--as in, if what will make me happy will make you unhappy, I won't do it.  This is cowardice:  people deny themselves because they are comfortable where they are; they are unwilling to step into a discomfort zone, if there is such a thing.

Our Declaration of Independence refers to our right to pursue  happiness.  We didn't start a war over a cute little notion but over a radical idea.  To live a life worthy of that struggle is to genuinely pursue happiness.  What can be more exciting than to go there, to exercise our birthright? 

 One Single Impression