Imagine, you're sitting on a bench, alone and watching the cars fly by with angry, careful drivers late for work. You're feeling the wind rush by you and causing the leaves to dance around your feet, the sun is out and you can feel the slight warmth radiating from it. A peaceful thought isn't it? Random memories are nuzzling their way into your brain and slowly melting away. Leaving a small smile in their place. All of this was suddenly stopped by someone sitting next to you on the bench. Not only were they invading your 'peaceful' relaxation time but they also stop your thought process and that 'peaceful' feeling you had felt slowly fades away. Looking in the distance together the stranger asks you a question. The question. A question in which they don't want a response, they just want you to stop and think.
"What would you do if money was no object?" They would say, breaking the silence that was once surrounding you both and then plunging you straight back into it.
Bearing in mind, you'd still have too work for your family and have a job etc. but what would you do? Would you pursue the career that you'd dreamed of as a child or as an adult? Becoming that famous footballer, the next Vincent Van Gogh, a writer, singer - the list is never ending of possibilities.
"What is stopping that 'dream job' from happening?" They would then ask, once again breaking the silence and triggering another thought process too boggle your mind and yet again, wanting no answer or response.
When you get down to something that you'd really want too do, do it. Why do we let our minds concentrate on making the money the most important thing? If we keep doing a job that we don't like doing. Working around people that we possibly don't like working with. Doing things that we don't like doing, to live and to keep doing things that we don't like doing. Sound silly too you? In that vicious cycle of doing things you don't like, in order to please people you don't like, in order to buy things, you possibly don't like and maybe teaching your children to follow your steps.
The silence is yet again broken.
"What's better too have? A short life filled with things you love and enjoy or a long life doing things that hate and bore you till you're close too tears."
At the end of the day, if you love what you're doing, it doesn't matter about anything else. You could potentially make a career and become a master at what you love and enjoy. Somebody is interested in something and everyone likes something different. You have the choice. The power. The capacity of thought to change what you think and follow what you love, regardless of what people think.
As the person gets up too leave, they leave you with one question and have left before you can respond.
"What do you desire?"
Once again you are plunged into your 'peaceful' setting but instead of the thoughts subtly popping up in your mind, there are questions and answers and curious things, that final question standing solidly in the center of it all.
What do you desire?
~Soph.
