Follow Your Spark

by Kris Pitcher

Sometimes the tinniest thing can cause a landslide. You tidy the magazines on the coffee table, then straighten the pillows on the couch and before you know it you've deep cleaned and rearranged the entire room.

It's that tiny spark of energy that ignites something in us. And I wonder do we have to find the thing, or the spark? We are taught to find the "thing". The thing that will fulfill our lives, bring us riches, make us famous...

But I wonder what we might make happen if we just went with the spark? The tiny bit of energy that draws us in a certain unintended direction.  See, the problem with our quest for the thing is some of us never find it. Or, it doesn't fulfill us, bring riches or make us famous. So we feel let down, and we lose sight of any spark at all.

If we turned it around and followed the spark, we might just fulfill our lives, and find our wealth - however that may be defined. Maybe your spark is telling you that you should be an interior designer. Or maybe it's telling you to follow some other dream. Sometimes I just wonder what the world would be like if we all lived our dreams instead of just dreaming them.

Maybe the next time you see the spark, feel the spark - that energy that makes you feel happy and excited - you should explore it. Consider it. Follow it. It might just lead you to your dreams.