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performance

What does it take to step up to do something you fear? Exclude the outside world, be with yourself, trust your instincts, and do the show. Enjoy it. Follow your senses, see with your eyes, listen with your ears, be connected with the physical reality.

Take a deep breath and go.

In my life, where jobs, friendships, relationships, family and the environment where I live looks many times like a mess of intentions, emotions and incompletions, I go back to the concept of performance.

A performance is complete. It starts and it has an end. It is about me, doing the show, no matter what’s the result. When I enjoy it, the mess becomes a beautiful mosaic, where I put the pieces and change them at my will.

I found a similar expression on the sense of being lost and finding the way by relying on yourself. Originally, it’s a part of the narrative culture of Native Americans.

“Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger.
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you,
If you leave it you may come back again, saying Here
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.”

(Taken from David Whyte, The Heart Aroused)

For an idea of performance where I feel completeness, watch this.