"Happiness is a constitution that you own; it is not required that you earn it". Koruswhispers
How should you read or digest a whisper from me especially when read on its own without the support of a “relieving” picture to present the caption to you in a more realistic manner?
This
though went through my head at the end of last year, as a friend mentioned she
felt my eBook wasn’t perhaps selling as I had hoped because it was without
pictures; as in my social media outlets. Just a collection of words that
perhaps could be seen as “long winded” or rather “washed out”. Without the
picture the impact she felt was lessened. She mentioned as well she often lost
the thread of what I was saying and stopped reading a blog post before reaching
the end. Ok I could say she is German and I write in English but she still has
a good grasp of my mother tongue hence I have given her comment some thought
and have come to the following conclusion.
My
work is to be digested on its own. Slowly and with personal, introverted
reflection. I am myself not an uncomplicated person and I write about life as I
have lived it, see it and feel it. I am emotional. I use words as my
expressional ventilation and also as my protective shield. I am not a
traditional person with a normal upbringing either. I have been mentally
tortured and physically abused. I have heaps of areas within me that are closed
and sealed. I also have a deep pool of compassion and desire to reveal
sometimes certain elements of what I have lived or am experiencing, in the hope
to spark off a change in another person that is productive. My words you
could say are my life raft as well as my sword.
So
when you read my whispers or a blog post please take “time out” to digest what
I am writing. Perhaps it is a new idea not yet known to you or maybe more an
old known comment given out in a different viewpoint. It could be it has
a resonance for you at this time or maybe it might be recalled at a later date
when it can be then understood in better terms. Or my whisper could be the cusp
of something totally new and extend to you the chance to take on a journey, to finding
out what exactly is your pathway – helping you find literally “your way”.
Let
me show you perhaps how you could go about it by my dissecting the following
whisper for you:
“Happiness
is a constitution that you own; it is not required that you earn it.”
“Happiness”
could be defined as a mental or emotional state of wellbeing, which is
recognized as being needed to function effectively within the act of carrying
out life. The United Nations have even declared the 20th of
March as the International Day of Happiness, which is considered elementary to the attainment of achieving wellbeing or otherwise known as an “universal
goal” for sustaining the human condition so it is able to function effectively.
“Constitution”
is a term I use for establishing the set of fundamental principals needed to
create an embodiment of feelings, to provide the founding elements for creating
a codex for living your life to the fullest. The term encases a process of
laying down set cornerstones for our physical, emotional and mental wellbeing.
“Own”
is a direct verb to acknowledging you possess a right to own something but also
as an idiom in stating you have possession of an attribute, which is due to
you. It is the establishing of a position you have, to maintaining
something that belongs to yourself hence now it is an adjective.
“Required”
simply establishes that it is an absolutely essential element to your being
here now. It is a mandatory part of the equation to morally providing you with
a supply of a substance to living your life fully.
“Earn”
has a dirty taste to it, as if it requires extreme effort and even in some ways
a threatening level of activity. Hence delivering the sense of a certain type
of behaviour or action that is required to be initiated before you can gain,
receive or have a set result delivered. It is questioning the necessarily of
this element in the equation of “happiness”.
Then
when you place the above explanations together you get a more in-depth understanding
of what I mean by whispering to you that “Happiness is a constitution that you
own; it is not required that you earn it.”
Yet
is it necessary to be so analytical and critical of literary work? I am my
harshest teacher and punishment deliverer. I could go back and rewrite,
dissect and pull apart all my previous works. Creating newer, tighter or more
compact whispers and blog posts but they would miss one essential element that
I had at the time of writing them – authenticity! They came from the passion,
temperament or inner power I was holding at the time and this cannot be
rewritten. For in doing so I would lose the energy I was embracing at that
moment I wrote the whisper. It is the same for when you read my work. Your
pathway doesn’t stay the same. You do not stand still but are finding out which
way to go on a constantly changing landscape, on a daily basis. So it is with my writing.
Therefore read my whispers now.
Therefore read my whispers now.
Today’s
reality is two toned.
Tomorrow
is not yet drawn.
Yesterday’s
has faded.
Accept
the moment as it is.
It
is the present.
Your Koruswhispers