watercolor by N Wait

Do you long, as I do, for travel not within your budget? Do you long for union, as I once longed to be two, not one? Do you long, as I sometimes do, to be somewhere other than here? Do you tell yourself as I sometimes do, that you should let go of attachments? Do you tell yourself to stop the wishing and the hoping…

Or…

Can you, do you feel the exquisite pleasure of the longing itself…

The longing for this or for that. Can those who say, Just Do It! feel that exquisite pleasure? Or those who say, Let Go…

I wonder…

I thought of this today because I was realizing how “longing” inspires me.

drawing by N Wait

drawing by N Wait

It inspires drawings and paintings, poems and prose.

As it does so in others… musicians too.

Not to mention Humanitarians, Philosophers, and Seekers of Truth.

drawing by N Wait

I’ve gotten a lot of mileage from my  

l o n g i n g s…

whether they be Attachments, or not. So I don’t think I will be letting go of them anytime soon. Because it’s about feeling the longing. And I think it stemmed from the Longing To FEEL… my humanness ~