I have not written in a month. It seems my goal of writing everyday will not get fulfilled. I did honor myself, however. For when even the thing I loved started to feel like a chore, I knew I had to stop. And that’s the thing with writing: you can either choose quantity over quality or quality over quantity. I didn’t want to write just to write. I wanted to wait until I felt moved to write.
A passion will always call you back. You don’t have to worry about that. What you have to worry about is staying aligned with your truth. And being flexible enough to break your own rules and fall short of your own expectations. This morning I took a run through the woods and what came to me was this: Sometimes you have to come out of alignment with yourself to come into even greater alignment with yourself.
Sometimes you have to go against your true nature and walk in another’s shoes, down another’s path, in order to remember your own. We can pray for clarity all we want, but the quickest way to get set straight is just to get out there and make some mistakes.