August 27, 2017
Yesterday, I wrote about spiritual hunger. Today, I'm going to take another big step and write about desire as hunger. This isn't the desire for material things, though having at least the minimum of security in our lives is important. After that, we move on up Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and that takes me to love, creativity, and happiness (or should I say joy?). A hunger for this higher sense of life is real, and the denial of it, whether self-inflicted or by someone else, is also real and causes a person to get stuck.
How do we get unstuck?
We make one small change and then another small change. Eventually, we make bigger changes. We put ourselves out there. In the past few weeks, I've started this blog. I've gone to the grocery and/or Farmers' Market weekly. I've been prepared for meals taken away from home. I've received an award, going up to a stage in front of hundreds of people and having my photo taken. I've worked on a room that needed work and taken steps necessary to organize my computer files. I've spoken my truth. I did some training to make my part-time job a bit more efficient. Now, I have a short story nearly ready to be submitted and am about to send queries to agents for my novel. I submitted a proposal to give a lecture in November, and it was accepted (yikes, now I have to research, write, and practice). Small changes. Small steps.
I'd felt stuck for a long time. I am fearful of getting stuck again, I'll admit. But these small changes are causing ripples, and I'm not sure I can go back now. I don't want to be stuck ever again and especially not for as long as I was.
My goals are love, creativity, and joy (yes, I said it). Forward.
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