Don't Try...

I don't know much about this great contemporary poet but a beautiful friend of mine wrote an article about him that endeared me to him as one of the most relatables writers to myself...without ever having known his work.  This particular quote grabbed me:

"Somebody asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them. You don't try. That's very important: not to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like its looks, you make a pet out of it."

    - Charles Bukowski

I know just what he means...

Oftentimes when we try to force out creativity, we are tainted by formulaic "method".  This is then allowing the backdrop of someone else's voice and it is cheating yourself out of all you could accomplish tailored exclusively to your soul.  This can extend to all aspects of life as all my truest successes have come to me when I was ready to receive them and some were thrust upon me even though my insecurities had me thinking I wasn't.  Happily coming to find...I was.  In my physical training, I tried almost every method known to man only to settle on what worked perfectly for my body.  Learn what you can, glean what works for you in segments and create the method that works for you.  You may be the only one in existence that writes "like that" or works "like that" but guess what?  It's all yours and it works perfectly for you.  You waited for it to come and when it was within reach...you grabbed it.  Sounds about right huh?  Yeah...I thought so...

Moses Apollo~

Special mention goes out to Lina Bonell for this one...