“In ancient times, the main purpose of nightly Council Fires was to learn how to listen.” – Jamie Sams & Twylah Nitsch
Somewhere along the line and at some point in the past few years, I got lost. Looking around for a steady place to stand, I found only other people’s ideas of what life should be like.
Over the past few months it has come to me very clearly:
I am living someone else’s dream life.
I have mostly done what I should do. Even though I have misbehaved along the way, I still ended up in a place where I can’t see my own reflection.
I have stuff I don’t need. I fight battles that do not matter. I am weighed down by unexpressed longings and unwritten words.
I don’t care about things that other people seem to believe in. I don’t long for the latest anything.
This is not a sad story,
This is my declaration of independence.
I have lit my own council fire, but it is a council of only one.
Through the flames I will look into my own eyes
And know my place.
xo
Photograph by Don Genge
Note: This is a re-publish of a post that was lost during my recent web difficulties. The good news is I’m finally back on line!
Glad to have you back! I’ve been to where you were when you wrote that post…I am now found! And I am enjoying this new pathway that my soul has been awakened to! Yes, the universe is having a conversation with me, and it is quite beautiful!
Love this! have told some things close to this to my myself at different moments in life and is always an awaking moment.
“I’m living someone else’s dream life” is a very interesting way of looking at.
Thanks from sharing.
(Coming from Susannah’s Journal your Life)
beautifully said! I can relate!
Wow Meghan what a beautiful writer you have turned out to be, and the photo by your dad takes me back to my Quin-Mo-Lac days that’s where a seed of my declaration of independence started Well done! Tell your Dad & Mom & Jim & Glen that Squid says hi!!!