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I am: The Djembe Warrior Drummer Princess, The Belly Shaking Goddess, The Seeker, The Mystic, and The Writer in Quiescence.

Pledge:

I vow to write in this blog at least ONCE a week about my journey as a writer. I promise that I shall conquer my fear of the Written Word and Blank Page/Screen. I will overcome the Writer's Block and will publish numerous times. I will grow as a writer and as a human being undeterred by the daily hardship and nuisance. (Yeah right....)

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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

The Futility of Goals

Yes, I've been silent for too long.  And I know that nobody reads my blog. I am not a real blogger anyway, I don't get excited sharing my pearls of wisdom with the Internet readers, or crazed about other people's blogs.  I guess it's just not for me.  But I don't want to be completely out of the picture yet either.  So after four months of being locked away in the deep dungeon of the job torture, and not being able to be with myself, I am once again trying to reconnect with the soul inside of me.   I am once again surrounded by the sacred silence, listening to the whispers of a voice withing me. The voice of what, I don't know.  God, Holy Spirit, inner wisdom, my heart, a Messenger, the infinite creative well... ? But I can hear it once again, guiding me through constant battle of self-hatred that I wage with myself.  And this is what the voice made me write:

Don't focus on the end result.  Don't focus on the goal.  Just enjoy each step without thinking of the final outcome and you will grow day by day into what the outcome is supposed to be.

There's too much emphasis in the modern Western culture on the goal, but the process is usually neglected.  Making the process work for the sake of the process is the ultimate challenge.

Write, dance, exercise for the sheer enjoyment of the feeling in your body.  The improvement will happen on it's own as a byproduct.  The final result?  You don't even want the result to BE FINAL! It's a constant lifelong growth and continuation, necessary for your own self, not for the others, not for the public, your friend, your mother, your husband, or your boss.  YOU are the only person that is doing the process, for whom the process is beneficial.

Who gives a damn about the goal now? 

3 comments:

  1. A suggestion. Carl Jung: The Red Book.
    Liber Novis. Good reading for those of
    us who on an inward journey.

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  2. Thank you, I'll check it out! Didn't know that people are still reading my blog. I haven't written much in a while.

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  3. This is wonderful Lyu. I love the idea of letting the outcome develop itself, a result of us simply letting it be.

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