You, yes you, reading this right this very second. You are amazing. In every conceivable way, in your conception. In every thing you do and say and think and feel. I could go on about how wonderful you are, but Eckhart Tolle does so much more concisely:
“You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.”
As an interesting writing exercise, I’d like to suggest you write a poem describing yourself as an expression of the universe. In whatever way that makes sense to you.
Now, I’m no poet. I know what that distinct talent looks like, and I can say with near certainty I was born without it. However, I write poetry all the time. The amazing thing about poetry is that it can take any feeling or moment or idea and scales it back far enough that each word, even the prepositions, are drenched in meaning. Writing poetry gives a writer, or really anyone for that matter, the ability to practice trimming down the narrative fat and getting to the heart of what they’re trying to say in a whole new way. It will make anything you write sound richer. Why not give it a whirl?
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