So often, people can’t find an outlet for their ideas and their ideas get stuck and start yelling to be free.
So many people don’t understand that it’s their ideas yelling to be free. They think instead there must be something wrong with their life.
It doesn’t occur to people that it’s their ideas that feel stuck and miserable.
Our ideas are always pushing and begging us to share them because they recognize their own beauty and truth and usefulness.
And when we don’t let them out, it’s really painful for us and for our ideas.
Sometimes I think our real job in life is to find and create outlets for our ideas.
I used to wait and wait and wait for the perfect outlet or invitation to share my best ideas. And when I couldn’t find one, things got pretty crowded inside my body because new ideas are always being born.
It became difficult to move and breathe and carry them all around. Eventually I had to get them out. I just couldn’t take the discomfort anymore.
It wasn’t the outlet I had hoped for, but the thing I learned is that when ideas are allowed to get out, the outlet doesn’t really matter – so long as the ideas can be seen and heard by another.
And after one idea is let out, the rest of the ideas usually get excited and follow, if we let them go. And when we can see our ideas on the other side, they always thank us and take on a life of their own.
When I remember to treat my ideas the way I’d treat someone I love, I remember to give them the space, any space, to be free.
-JLK
