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Posted by jonvon on November 19, 2004 at 09:59:35:

In Reply to: Re: here is another story for you posted by J on November 15, 2004 at 16:18:48:

: You have just stated something here... What does 'finding our vocation' mean? This is exactly what I am considering.

i love these stories you put together to consider these things. its like the jason scientific method. you create this little scenario where you can look at the parameters of your problem in a sterile environment. like you are breaking down everything into its component parts and examining them one at a time.

i think as far as your query goes, i think i answered it in my response to steve's post. at least as best as i could. i'm still figuring it out too. mostly i guess what we are trying to figure out is, we have this creative thing we want to do in addition to all the other stuff we find ourselves doing.

did you ever see the movie Dune? if so you might remember that in the movie that Baron Harkonnen guy had that fellow, the Mentat, whom he had captured, poisoned. and there was this little mouse or some little rodent of some sort in a cage. the Mentat guy (Thufir Howat? not sure..) had to milk this little rodent every day to receive the antidote to his poison or he would die.

i think our creative outlets are like that little mouse. we have to milk them, so to speak, every day or we die a little that day.

that is why the notion of vocation is so important. it isn't that we want really badly to be accountants or nurses or something. even though those vocations are very important to society. it is that we have a creative urge, and if we aren't doing something about it we will die. in some way, some part of us that is the real us will die. or get buried under a lot of sediment.

whenever i have a long period where i don't write it is like i have some resurrecting to do. i have to wake that part of me back up.

as a jesuit priest told me one time, we have a duty to participate in Life. there are a lot of ways to do that, it isn't just about that primary creative expression we are concerned with. but the creative expression part really nags at us when we aren't doing it. we just have to figure out how to work it in.

maybe it all just comes down to time management.

:-)

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: : <i>You have just stated something here... What does 'finding our vocation' mean? This is exactly what I am considering. </i> : i love these stories you put together to consider these things. its like the jason scientific method. you create this little scenario where you can look at the parameters of your problem in a sterile environment. like you are breaking down everything into its component parts and examining them one at a time. : i think as far as your query goes, i think i answered it in my response to steve's post. at least as best as i could. i'm still figuring it out too. mostly i guess what we are trying to figure out is, we have this creative thing we want to do in addition to all the other stuff we find ourselves doing. : did you ever see the movie Dune? if so you might remember that in the movie that Baron Harkonnen guy had that fellow, the Mentat, whom he had captured, poisoned. and there was this little mouse or some little rodent of some sort in a cage. the Mentat guy (Thufir Howat? not sure..) had to milk this little rodent every day to receive the antidote to his poison or he would die. : i think our creative outlets are like that little mouse. we have to milk them, so to speak, every day or we die a little that day. : that is why the notion of vocation is so important. it isn't that we want really badly to be accountants or nurses or something. even though those vocations are very important to society. it is that we have a creative urge, and if we aren't doing something about it we will die. in some way, some part of us that is the real us will die. or get buried under a lot of sediment. : whenever i have a long period where i don't write it is like i have some resurrecting to do. i have to wake that part of me back up. : as a jesuit priest told me one time, we have a duty to participate in Life. there are a lot of ways to do that, it isn't just about that primary creative expression we are concerned with. but the creative expression part really nags at us when we aren't doing it. we just have to figure out how to work it in. : maybe it all just comes down to time management. : :-)

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