Wanting small

“Why is my needle stuck in childhood?  I guess that’s where my heart is.”  Maurice Sendak (Artist and Writer of for example ‘Where the wild things are’.)

The words on the image, “Do you always want what you think you want?” got me thinking about this whole ‘growing up’ business.  Striving to be bigger and better and more.  What if it’s just not your fit?  And I wondered …why is it that we feel so pressured and pushed to seek more.  Do big and incredible things.  Reach for ‘up there’.  Which got me thinking about the bottom.

Down here.  Isn’t that a valid place to park yourself too. Things may not be quite as grand and shiny but what if you’re much closer to … your ‘self’.  And what if your ‘self’ is more content in place than size. Is actually repelled by what everyone else wants.  What they have and seek.  Has no desire for Super Stardom.  Celebrity status.  Super Heriosm.  Isn’t simply being real and true to yourself (the hardests of tasks in this plastic world) an applaudable mark of personal success.  Isn’t that the greatest thing you could hope to find – and give.  To tread your own path. To STOP.  Think.  Question.  To have little (or no) idea where you’re going but have enough of that childlike wonder stored to embrace the mystery.  Explore.  Be free of the constraint of … ‘When I grow up I want to be … ‘ – and just be.  Which brings us back to the question. ‘Do you always want what you think you want?’ Leave it with you … 

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