Cosmic connection?
Posted on Apr 14th, 2008
by 
spiral5
spiral5
I was in a book store at the weekend, for a reading by a friend who has just published her 20th (!) book. It's not often (maybe it's never happened) that I am in a book store and not frantically rifling through the shelves. That day, however, I was forced to be still and to listen to my friends words as she read to the crowd. The book was inspiring just like the ones that came before but despite my interest, I found myself looking around in wonder at the books around me. As her words gently hummed with a rhythm that held her audience in thrall, a blinding epiphany came to me.
All these books on the shelves around me, all these authors, had one thing in common; they all felt they had something to say, and they suffered enough to get it into print. It seems lame when I say it now but at the time it filled me with such joy to feel connected with these authors, not because of what they wrote, but because they all cared enough to share their perspective on life through a book. I feel that urge very strongly. Who knows whether I will ever get through the publishing process, but I know what it feels like to want to share how life is experienced from this human's point of view.
This is incredibly hard to explain, but I think there is a thread of voice throughout the world, maybe the Universe (did you know the heavens 'sing' particular notes but the human ear cannot hear it?)
We are all part of the voice whether it be through literary pursuits, music, or art. For me, there is true bliss in knowing I am part of those that want to speak out. One of our deepest human tragedies could just be that some people never find that; never find their voice, never join the thread.
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