Here is a great quote my sister shared with me today.
“A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.”
-Jorge Luis Borges
When I consider that, the list of experiences is endless for me. Cancer, Death, life, Divorce, childbirth, the first time I learned to ride a bike, and the most recent time I relearned to ride a bike. High School, College, finding a job, losing a job, discovering life again through the eyes of a child, and being loved through the hardest moments of my life.
Life truly has its' ups and downs, and it is within those valleys and mountains we find the things that shape us. If you're a writer, good luck to you today as you discover your inspiration, and may you be inspired with the great, and the bad, things you have gone through in your life.
