Unwritten
[image error]I am writing today, and nearly everyday. Creating worlds. Telling stories. Sometimes my mind is so busy creating, that my body forgets to move.
So today, I danced.
And even as I danced, I'm inspired by a song that is about writing our own story in life!
"I am unwritten, can't read my mind, I'm undefined
I'm just beginning, the pen's in my hand, ending unplanned"
Obviously Natasha Bedingfield is a panster rather than a plotter! Lol
But seriously, this song is so inspiring to me. As Dmytry and I danced around the house with our kids, I couldn't help reflect on what this song means to me.
As a writer.
As a human.
As a woman creating and shaping her own life.
"Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find"
So often we get stuck. Blocked. Unable to move forward in our story or our life. Not knowing what it is we are looking for.
"Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it"
We stay trapped in our own fears, not willing to let ourselves be fully seen by those around us. Scared that our story is not worth telling.
"Release your inhibitions[image error]
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten"
But we are all unique. We each have our own voice and our own perspective. Our own life experience. There are themes, archtypes, ways of telling story that might be similar. But in the end, the way I tell my story and the way YOU tell your story will never be the same, because we aren't the same.
And yet we are united by these common themes, bringing to them our unique voices, making them relatable and new to those whose hearts resonate with ours. How exciting!
"I break tradition, sometimes my tries, are outside the lines
We've been conditioned to not make mistakes, but I can't live that way"
In the process we make mistakes. Color outside the line. Break molds and invent new ways of doing something! Nothing ever was gained by the fear of making a mistake. It's only through mistakes that we grow and learn and create!
Truly creation can only happen when we open our arms and let ourselves feel the rain on our skin, allow ourselves to speak the words only we can speak. Embrace the blank page and unknown ending and keep writing!
Whether a story, novel or the very script of our lives, we have to dance in the rain, make our mistakes, and play in our world in order to find the joy that has been there all along!
What we are looking for isn't OUT THERE! It's right in us. We just have to let it out!
Enjoy this video today and think of ways you can live your life with arms wide open!
What's one thing you will do this week that might scare you? Me? I'm going to dance everyday and let my body play as much as my mind!
