Diva Girl Ellie

I find inspiration everywhere. In people, their words, their actions. In emotions and feelings. Today, I found it in a song. Dare You. As I sat there listening to the lyrics of this song - to which I have heard over and over to no end. It wasn't until today that I really heard it for the true value of what it was trying to say. I dare you to love, I dare you to cry, I dare you to run, I dare you to try, I dare you to fall, and lay on the ground, I dare you to feel, I dare you to be here now.
Since when have we become so frightened to FEEL and BE in the moment and be here now? What has taught us to become so afraid of who we really are? At the end of the year, I saw a video posted on Facebook. It was Jim Carrey speaking at a commencement. It wasn't till the last line that the impact of that video truly hit me. The simplicity of it. The truth of it. And just how complicated we as humans tend to make our own worlds - that we even create our own prisons, put barred doors and locks on it - make the keys then throw them out of reach. For what? That last line in that video was, "You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance at doing something you love." Why do we feel that we must be miserable and endure what we don't want? And that we aren't worthy of trying at something we truly LOVE and are PASSIONATE about? Why would we choose what we don't want? When in our mind, hearts, should and world - did someone tell us that we were never good enough to do what it is brings our heart the most happiness? As the song says, "And your dreams were made illegal by the laws of lesser evil we call life." Under whose authority did we allow someone else, something else - to dictate what is most important to us and the reality of our dreams? When did having a dream become a bad thing? If we would dare ourselves to DO those things that fuel our passion, our hearts, our creativity - that feed our soul to become better people, to share in this journey, to help each other up, along and through the rough times. To be there for each other and cheer when we are victorious. It would all become second nature to us - what should have been innate in the first place. What are you going to dare yourself to do? What are you going to unlock within you? "Let your heart be your religion, Let it break you out of this prison you became", is what the song calls to action. Are you going to break yourself out of the prison rut that you have created for yourself. You won't know unless you try. And as Jim Carry's speech said, we might as well take a chance at doing something you love. <3