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The Desire Vs the Duty: choosing wisely?
There’s a constant tug-of-war between the quiet joy of creating and the loud demands of survival. Never would I have ever imagined how powerful the tension between those two would be. Thing is I want to chase my dreams, but I also need to pay rent! Being a creative soul and a responsible do-right, law-abiding citizen don’t go hand in hand, my friends. I mean, how can that even work when you’re just a DIY indie creator who can’t afford all the emotional and financial demands society has set forth for you? What I want to do? I dream of mornings doing nothing but writing, observing, dancing, creating… Evenings lost…
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Ants and my sense of wonder
When I was a little girl, I would spend minutes on end watching hard-working ants in their element. More specifically, I’d watch fire ants go in and out of their expertly-designed colonies and nests in my family’s or neighbors’ backyard. I was merely in awe of how ants walked back and forth, what seemed like aimlessly, to and from a hole somewhere in soil. But what I was more fascinated by was how even after chasing them, I’d still lose track of where they went, where they were going to or coming from. Their hideout must’ve been an infinite tunnel to the bottom of the earth, I thought. One hundred…
