Writer's Inspiration: Escape

I love writing inspirational pieces.

Writing is my way out, and I believe in the power it has over everything - life, love, and even being able to raise your self-worth and give you a reason to be.

Writing is my escape.

I believe in the power of writing to make us heal, make us whole, and bring us together. I believe in free expression, and I believe in the power of words.

After all, every famous speech that changed the world started out as words on a page.

I want everyone to find their inner scribe, that thing that excites them, and the words that need to come out. I don't want anyone to feel trapped in one genre or another because of 'what's hot' or what the market wants. The market wants things which people poured their hearts into, things with meaning and a power all their own.

In this world, you believe in the barriers that hold you. The only thing holding you back is your belief in those walls. Writing is the only way through. Expression helps us fly. Every one of us can contribute, even if it just for ourselves, and every one of us can change the world.

You have to follow your dreams. You need to believe. You need to break the chains of your own mental design. You need to step, just once towards the light, and then take them one at a time until you are free.

You can do it.

No matter how hard it is, the sand that shifts under your feet, the darkness that lies to you that says no one is hearing you, and the overwhelming odds against your success - you need to walk towards the light of freedom. With every step you might make ten back, but the next day you will wake up and take another one in the direction you believe is right for you.

You can't live like you used to, in denial, with the ghosts of self-doubt, with the howling winds of past failures and when the branches of heartache bang on your windows. You need to trudge forward through the snow as it only seems to get deeper, for going on is better than going back.

It's better to face an uncertain future of potential promise than it is a walk back through history of failure.

For failures are why we were meant to forget things.

Some people live with the memories of failure all their life. Day after day, they open the door, let their failures in, wallow in their stories of sadness and regret, and spend the day they will never get back lost in the misery of reminiscence. When the sun goes down, they fear the next day's remembrance and the stories of sorrow that shall be told again. They begin the day with dread, and end it with regret.

Tomorrow, I want you to not let the ghost in.

Instead, walk outside right past it. Walk away. Step into the sun.

Walk through the light of promise and hope and look around, you'll discover a thousand things to see, and thousands more to love. Just life itself waiting there to be seen, to be considered, every moment waiting for someone to take it into a though, and turn it into words. Every moment a word on a page, and so many it may seem overwhelming at first.

But you can pick out the ones that inspire you, for you as a human are a very intelligent and selective creature. It takes a special sense, a special ability that we learn all our lives from the moment we emerge from our mothers to the final seconds we have in this world. You will find the moments you will write about through the things you love. What will be important to you will be instantly recognizable, it shall leap right out at you, and the millions of choices you have will fade away to that one that sings true to you. What makes you shine will be the things that shine to you.

For love is our greatest sense.

You just have to trust love, and let it show you the way.