Sometimes you don’t have the words for joy. The same can be said for the happy moments in life. One of her favorite quotes is “I cannot tell you what will happen, but it will be different when the light pours in.” Take the time to see the light pour in, but give yourself grace while you wait. As Morgan notes, when life is challenging, the very act of starting to create a piece of art or writing can help unlock something deep within you, which can grow and show you different parts of yourself on your journey. You also don’t have to wait until you are happy to create things. It is okay to just “be” when you feel at a loss or directionless.
It is okay not to be productive or creative all the time. Wherever you are in your life, have grace, not just for others, but for yourself too. Morgan says we should welcome these uninspired moments as moments to simply “be”. It is just as important to listen and engage with the world around you as to add to it. If, on this journey, you start to feel uninspired to create, remember that you don’t have to. You can learn something from every place on the road- every part of the journey matters.
Sometimes you take a journey and you end up somewhere, and sometimes you go somewhere else. In life, like on a map, often there is no “finish line”. Failure, sadness and joy are not mutually exclusive. In this podcast (episode #277) and blog, I speak with artist, poet, storyteller and best-selling author Morgan Harper Nichols about how art and poetry can help us process life and all its challenges, and the beautiful reality of how far each of us have come in our own lives.Īs Morgan describes in a poem in her incredible book, How Far You Have Come, there is often joy on the other side of an experience, but how you get there may start in the trenches.
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