How to Save a Life: Create with Vengeance.
By Kimberly Pine.
Artists.
Musicians.
Writers.
Dancers.
… Anyone who is called by the muse of creation.
Look.
You are not frivolously smearing paint around on a canvas. You’re saving a life.
Life can be cruel, ugly, and violent. It can be sobbing on the floor, begging for mercy kind of painful. We are bombarded with images that make us question Divinity. Wars tear apart families. Nature can take everything you’ve ever known in a single day. Children die before their time. Hearts shatter. Life will burn.
How could there be something Divine when such monstrosities exist?
You’re not here to waste time by creating worthless trinkets. You’re reminding people that life is worth living. You’re reminding them that life can be beautiful again. And our family of humanity is going to need these reminders forever.
Never ever let people make you believe that your work isn’t valuable. You are just as important as a doctor, a physician, or a firefighter. When people walk through the gateway into your world, they are not coming to you for condensed matter to take up space.
They are coming to you with a broken heart of shattered dreams to be stitched back together.
They are coming to you with the endless stresses of society and an empty soul.
They are coming to you because they are starving for the source that guided you to create in the first place.
You are an artist. Your job is to make what is ugly, beautiful. To make what is blank, full. To make what was ordinary, extraordinary. You’re a sorcerer who must make people see the beauty in life again after their hearts have been ripped out of their chest. Your work is to move people to their soul. It’s a fucking difficult job and it is not for everyone. Your talents chose you.
Stop insulting the magnitude of the impact of your work by undermining the importance of it. The right color combination can help blend together a battered heart. Having something beautiful simply for beauty’s sake can light a fire that someone never thought could come back. Watching your body move in perfect rhythm will demand a pause to contemplate the power of grace.
A perfect line of prose will put words to feelings dying to be expressed. A line of music can silence a tormented mind in moments.
Stop undercharging. Stop never charging. Stop saying No one needs art. Your talents chose you for a reason for the job. Artists are a kind of reverse firefighter for the human soul. We are here to bring back the fire and keep it going no matter the cost of our own life. So we better hone our craft like a motherfucker. Lives depend on it.
You’re not just selling someone a painting; you’re giving them hope that life can be beautiful again. You’re inviting another soul to get to know itself. You’re not selling someone your soul; you’re selling them the proof that the Divine exists.
So I dare you to go and move someone. Remind them that life can make you laugh till you cry. Show them never-ending shades of radiance. Be so heart-on-fire connected with Infinite Creation it gives them tangible proof the Divine is real. And convince them that they are worth the connection.
Go out and move someone — do it now. I dare you.
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Kimberly wants to live in a world where magick is a part of everyday life. As a writing coach, she’s been spotlighted on Rebelle Society, The San Antonio News-Express, and the Short Horn. When she’s not helping entrepreneurs fearlessly share their message, you can find her devouring Native American spirituality and handwriting letters. Her latest book, ‘Booked Solid’, hits the Internet in early 2014. Explore how to share your message fearlessly and stop staring at a blank computer screen by visiting her website.
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