I have always heard life is, "A Rat Race." This constant way of life fiercely competitive struggle; always needing to gain something. What happens when it stops? What happens when something beyond our control makes it ALL just stop. I am learning most of us have grown such accustom to the Race that we begin to itch, twitch, and beg for the fix of the race again. It is the most addictive drug to our system. We blindly need it no matter who the dealer might be or drug of choice.
When I stop to think what has the Race stolen from me, because all good drugs take and never give. You see they are masked in snippets of achievements measured by the Race itself. The quick fix to make you to just keep running. I must ask myself when I have been in detox for two months and now can clearly think and feel outside of the race; What have I been missing? What has this world been missing? My core answer comes back to CREATIVITY. The act of creating.
We often associate that word with art or an artist. And in away, yes it should stay there. But the act of creating changes the view ever so slightly, to make it applicable to all things in life. The Race makes you create quickly, rush, push, and the quality gets lost because everyone is in the Race together. Those that make the Race slow down, during the marathon are looked at as lost, can't find their way, somewhat of community outcast.
From this point on my life can never be the same. The act of creating must be applied, in love, in relationships, and in every facet of my small little nugget of this world. The Race did not teach me that. It has stolen it from me. I hear and feel the itching, twitching, and begging for the drug, we all are in detox. There is a cleansing of our system happening. Understand while in detox, we do not realize that there is a refueling happening to us. We all are just trying to breakout of rehab. We were not made for the Race. We have let the Race make us. It will all change from here. So brace yourself and learn to create. It is what will get us through.
