Tumbling Like Alice

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A Life Lived In Fear Is a Life Half Lived

I was afraid for a long time. Everyone walks their own path and lives their own lives. We all know the depths of our own suffering and the height of our happiness. And for a long time i was very afraid. I didn’t even realise how afraid till i went travelling. Many miles from my home, my family, my country and my safe existence i discovered how fearful i had been. Not afraid of danger but afraid of life and living. 

Deciding to be an artists and really go at it full boar is terrifying. Having the world say that there is no work in art, that it isn’t as important as maths and other academic pursuits and having art be the only thing you are good at is scary as hell. Having adults around you tell you since you are very young that being an adult is miserable is terrifying. It’s like life ending before it even begins. 

But when i travelled i realised everything i was afraid of was a lie. I met so many different people from so many different walks of life that where happy, that had seen things i couldn’t imagine, people that where fun and really ALIVE. I saw countless kinds of art used in so many different ways that I realised there are endless avenues to follow art down. People make art sound like a dead end but in actuality it is a plethora of possibility. It is flexible and malleable, it is constructive and thought provoking, it is inspiring and moving and it lives in our fingertips, minds, hands, feet and hearts.     

Life is the pursuit of happiness, the people who taught me to be afraid did not know or understand that joy, art and happiness in life is something we must take for ourselves every day. When people ‘grow up’ they get caught up in responsibility, in the clock on and clock off existence, they stop searching for those things that make us tick and click and live.   

All the people i’ve ever met who are happy dare to push the edge, strive to be childlike (not childish), take time to enjoy the things that make them laugh and do what they feel is right within themselves weather they are told they are too old, not experienced enough or talented enough, not smart enough or pretty enough. In spite of the social stigma surrounding outcasts and advertising campaigns championing normality and perfection at the end of the day it isn’t exclusively the smartest, prettiest, fastest, strongest, youngest and most normal people that are happy. It isn’t even the people who take the safe, normal or easy routes.  

It’s the people who do not live a life in fear of what others might say or what might happen and simply enjoy what makes them happy and follow what gives their lives pathos, joy and meaning. 

Sometimes i’m still afraid but i don’t let that fear stop me from being happy or stop me from perusing what i feel is right.

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