The Audacity to Dare.
I just got caught up on the comments from my last post, and one of them made me pause and really think about it for a few minutes. Tamsin from Resurface’s response to my post about being forward-story-spinners rather than past-story-retellers was this:
“It's so, so important! Speak it into existence, be open about our desires and dreams, take that vulnerable step of saying it out loud and daring to hope.”
That made me stop and think because when I wrote the post, I had only been thinking of the bravery it would take to be the one asking the question. I hadn’t been thinking about what it would require of the one being asked.
The first image that came to my mind was of my younger self: the audacious little one who (legend tells) would tell the grown-ups where to sit when they came to the house for meetings. She knew what she wanted: to sit beside the adults who made her feel loved and special.
Somewhere after that, she stopped demanding what she really truly deeply wanted, and now that I really think about it, that was because she actually stopped knowing what she really truly deeply wanted.
Because as she grew and navigated the world, what she wanted became safety and certainty and being good and not getting in trouble.
So many people I work with don’t really know - I can hear Oprah’s voice from a very long-ago show saying, “You know like you know like you know” - what they want because they are so used to managing everyone else’s okayness and being good and taking care and maintaining the spinning plates.
So when someone asks what they really truly deeply want, they get flustered, or they say the same thing that they always say, or they give the reasons why it’s a silly thing to want. Or they realize that what they want - really want - right now is a break - 24 hours of catered aloneness…
But what the world - YOUR world - needs right now isn’t your management of what’s ordinary; it needs you to find your audacity:
The world needs you being audacious enough to dare to hope and dream again.
That’s all you need to do: be brave enough to want - really, truly want - again; and then be brave enough to say it out loud; to have an answer if someone asks: what do you want? (Even if it’s that break. If that’s you hear me: do everything you can to get one in the calendar.)
People are afraid to want because it all feels too much - but you don’t climb a mountain in a day. It’s a process of small steps - but it begins with you admitting that what you want is to watch the sunrise from the top.
Dare to dream again. Please. Your dreams are so important.
With so much love,
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