Thursday, June 25, 2009

Impact.

When reading the definition of inspire, I found it to be pretty accurate.
Some words are hard to define, but I think they summed this one up pretty well.
The first meaning of the word inspire is
to influence, move, or guide in a divine or supernatural way
.
Okay, I'll take that. It totally makes sense. But then I read on and
BAM!
Number two hit home. To breathe or blow into or upon.
The first definition put words to the idea of inspiration.

The second put words to the actual act of being inspired.



When something truly inspires you, it starts from deep within.
It finds it's way to your heart, taking paths you don't always know exist.
It's like it is breathed into you. It becomes a temporary part of the
process of your being. It reaches the corners of your flesh and bounces
back, dragging with it fragments of past memories, ideas, visions, and dreams.
By the time it reaches your brain, it's nothing but a pile of shards.
A puzzle you are more than ready to put together. You add, subtract, crop,
and fold the pieces until it becomes a finished product. The reaction,
the answer, to the object that started it all.

Everyone's 'objects' are different. Some are inspired more by people;
what they do, say, or maybe just how they do or say it.
Others are inspired by meaning itself. Interpretation, their own or others.
And still others are inspired by anything and everything. It's an
unexplained sort of inspiration that leaves one with a constant tingly
feeling-the sensation when one's foot falls asleep,
but instead of their foot, it's their realistic mind.

The last one, the easily inspired type, is often referred to as a dreamer.
Someone who looks deep and beyond the surface of everyday life.
I believe it is these dreamers who have the most impact on the world.
After all, impact is just a fancy term for the result of inspiration.

2 comments:

  1. This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
  2. I love this statement. I believe this is very true to life in this world as we know it!!

    ReplyDelete