How Learning a New Skill Awakens you from a Senseless Dream

2019 seems a new start for many. We all crave something new and better in our lives. “Maybe this time, maybe this year I will do it!”
Here I was standing in John Lewis and I saw all the detritus and waste and wreckage of my misspent life laid out before me realising that the reminder of one’s moral and psychological bankruptcy never go away. “I’ve got to have courage to do something different and better”. “This year it will be the year I publish my book”. “I will write more” people tell themselves.
“I will commit to one relationship”. “I will find that love” and so on. “The mediocre life will end I will be better this year”.
“You lived with anger and physical yearnings that were insatiable, and you went about dismantling yourself on a daily basis, tendon and join, for the rest of your days all the time wearing the mask of a court jester.” James Lee Burke, Creole Belle
This mask has to come off.
Lucky one realises that one lives such a life! Corporate world does that to you. It lures you in and sends you off to sleep before you know it you are that “court jester” without a court! Yearly event is a reminder of something I once knew. Something that I always wanted to do it’s like a flickering glimmer of hope to realise my dreams one day.
That glimmer was with me when I was standing in John Lewis; learning a new skill wakens me from my dream in which I lost all my senses. Doing something with hands is hard and not pretty, and not popular, and not famous! These days everyone wants to be an actor, singer or simply famous. No one is dreaming of creating a better world! Why?
Why no one is talking about how to learn to sew or code or knit or create something out of nothing? When I sit in front of computer and I can put a few commands and suddenly a miracle happens on the page, for instance, a website is born! No not square space, not wix, not wordpress but from actual code that, my friend, is magic!
Sewing is very similar! The difference is I feel the materials. I see colours and the endless possibilities of what that piece of silk can become!!! I create something out of nothing into a beauty of life. That’s magic! Why no one wants to do that? I don’t want to buy clothes I want to sew clothes.Why everyone wants to look the same?
I would rather wear clothes that I made or it’s made for me rather than buying what everyone else is. Isn’t that more exciting? All my burnt out weekends and misspent life accumulates to nothing unless I do something magical, for instance, coding or sewing. People in a corporate world don’t understand me because I am not earning a pile of hard cash every month.
Life is not a race it’s a marathon. I am building my own empire of magic without the corporate world and when I will need help I will have all the skills, languages, spirit or soul to support me. A corporate world person has nothing not even that pile of cash because it’s all spent on deconstructing himself/herself in bars and holidays.
Here is to magic in your life and less corporate nonsense! Live life that doesn’t amount to burned out ends of nothing. I hope the life that you have is full of magic, love and hope of more beautiful tomorrow! The beauty is you have a choice to create it. Humans are super powerful beings.
