Imaginings

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“Everything you can imagine is real.” -Pablo Picasso

I’m going to make use of my separators from here on out. Everything above this paragraph is for viewers who want a cowgirl and no bull. Anything below is about my search for a purpose (and other animals), so read with caution (and an open mind)… only if you dare.

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My words may be a little disorganized today. I’ve got about three different ideas whirling around my mind and I’m not sure which I’ll land on. Maybe one, maybe all. Who knows?

First of all, I read the Picasso quote last night and I just knew it was significant for my journey. I’ll probably need to circle back to that in a minute because I’m still not sure why, or how.

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I started looking up various meanings of the word “purpose,” and I found some inspiration. Not oodles, but enough to get me started. The most basic dictionary says purpose is “the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists.”

Psychologists look a little deeper, defining it as “an abiding intention to achieve a long-term goal that is both personally meaningful and makes a positive mark on the world.”

Dostoevsky said, “the mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” In other words, our existence is not just about survival, but about finding a meaning… a reason or goal that gives life significance and direction.

So… I need a goal that gives my life significance and direction. Yep. Thank you. I think I knew that already.

I don’t know about you, but it seems to me like stepping up my game on this blog could very well play a part in this so-called goal making. 

I need to take it more seriously, and use it to make a positive mark on the world, not just for everyday boring chit chat, or for sharing images made late in the evening, for no apparent reason.

I don’t know. That sounds like a lot of work. See! My shadowy selves are chiming in already, saying “chill out girl! You know you’ll never follow through with any of this… you’re too damn lazy. Talk, talk, talk… that’s all you ever do.”

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I’m revisiting the quote now. Under normal circumstances – I might say that the voices are winning again. But I will not. I’m beginning to understand why that quote made such an impression on me last night.

There’s a secret in it. All I need to do is believe that I can do it (or anything else for that matter), and then imagine what that looks like… because “everything I can imagine is real.” (and now we know where UFOs came from!)

Maybe finding a purpose (that target that I couldn’t make heads or tails of) will be simpler than I thought. Possibilities and opportunities have always been there, right in front of me…

I just couldn’t imagine them. 

Wow. We made significant steps today! And not to brag or anything, but I’m pretty sure I may have killed two birds with one stone. I think my “failure to imagine” might play a role in the old Imposter Syndrome as well.

Another discussion, another day.

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I spent a lot of time on my featured image today and it IS a revamp – a combination of two different illustration parts that weren’t really anything to speak of before.

I went with the flow… trying to create a scene that was not too realistic, but an imagining. It appears that the girl is materializing out of a make-believe field of pastel colors. It’s unusual, but that’s OK.

Anyway, that’s pretty much all for now… thank you so much for viewing or reading. I hope that you enjoyed something here!

Peace & Love.

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“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” -Eleanor Roosevelt