Inspiration
I always love seeing little tidbits of inspiration when I browse my social media. Random graphics and quotes as I scroll through my Facebook or Instagram. Or looking them up on Pinterest to give myself a push or a little glimmer of motivation.
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Especially in a world where we have faced some truly dark times, some of us are like Hansel and Gretel: looking for any morsel or crumb that might lead us back to the light. Inspiration can come from so many different things. it truly is all around us if we know to look for it. That reminds me of one of my favorite Dumbledore quotes from Harry Potter:
Sometimes the light can be found IN the darkness. I know that when I was in the ICU with Covid, I just wanted to lay there and wallow in my misfortune. However, I had a nurse that woke me up bright and early to give me my breakfast and said to me, “Alright! We are getting you out of this bed, into that chair and you are going to eat breakfast, do breathing exercises and see how you do!” Part of me wanted to just roll over and sleep the day away; I was lonely, scared and felt terrible.But this nurse put her foot down and that was the slow beginning to a very long and ongoing recovery. It was day one of starting to feel like a living, breathing (albeit still struggling to do so) human being. At the end of that day, I had been sitting in that chair the whole time before I went to bed that night. She told me the next day that I was an inspiration and I was going to beat this. I wish I could thank her for the swift kick in the butt I needed to get past that dark corner.
Like hope, inspiration is something I think people really need. It gives us a pick me up. A reason to not give up. A battery recharge when things are tough. It is the light in the darkness.
The funny thing is that without the darkness, we cannot recognize the light. They are infinitely connected to each other. Inspiration is a reminder of that.
