And if you don't write?

It's no big deal, right? If you never pick up that pen again, does it really matter?
Your life goes on just fine, and the world does not come to an end. Or does it?

In some indigenous cultures, it was dance that kept the community whole and sane, healthy and alive. In others, it was the story teller. In still others, it was the bard who sang poetry and played music.

It all depends, really, on what kind of world you want to live in. And what kind of tribe you belong to. And since most of us live in a culture that has lost any sense of the tribal underpinnings of life, you probably have to figure it out for yourself.

It's between you, and your soul.

Are you part of that tribe of people who start to die a slow, invisible death if creative expression is kept out of your life for too long? Is there something missing that you can't quite define?

Do you drop things and break them for no reason? Do you get irritable at your kids or your spouse if you don't get some time alone? Do you crave long stretches of solitude the way some people crave chocolate and ice cream?

If you do, or if you have your own personal version of the above, that's your soul calling out to you.

Do yourself a favor. Don't become one more person living a life of quiet desperation. We've already got enough of those. And don't spend one more day of your precious life denying who you are. Our time here is so short.

If you knew you had one year to live

and at the end of that year, your very aliveness was going to be put to the test, determining if you would be granted another year in this exquisite temple called your body, in order to live this miracle you call your life, would you still put off writing?

If you knew that everything that ever happened to you

was meant to be part of the prayer that you came here to live, would you wait another day to dive into your story to find the holiness at the core of it?

You only have this one chance to live. Writing can give you back to yourself like nothing else can. Why wait another minute to wake up to the gift that's been given you?

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