I never wanted fame. It is easy to say, I know… Everything is easy to say. It is the way to say it that makes us who we are. We live the same joys, suffer the same pains, seek the same dreams and have the same fears… We use the same words, just not the same way.
We paint with words, we knit thoughts, we make thoughts melodies… Hoping. Hoping the way we see life will reach other people’s hearts. We don’t get to choose who will be moved, and it is the beauty of words. You never know how they will resonate under the brushing look of a reader.
If I wanted my face on the façade of bookstores, or the title of my latest book to provoke murmurs in chic litterary circles, I wouldn’t be here. I would spend all my free time bent over a notebook, writing and rewriting my sentences a hundred times, to make every word fit perfectly. I would work in the darkness, to send out only gems, carefully polished, for the world to see.
Instead, I choose to let myself be clumsy and spontaneous. I give my words to anyone who cares to read them. And my only paycheck is the feedback I get on my comment box. It suffices me, although I wouldn’t mind if it also paid the bills. Who would?
I don’t want fame, because this is not about me. I am just the vessel of my thoughts. I will not leave children behind me, to prolong the memory of what I’ve been, when I die. All that will be left of me, will be these bits and pieces of my mind, lingering in time.
I don’t want millions of people to adore me without knowing who I am. I don’t want masses to mourn me, when they never even crossed my path.
But I hope, someday, someone will fall upon some of my words, and running through my story, will end up setting their glasses on the table and thinking for themselves…
Oh, how I wish I had known her…
Via today’s Daily Prompt: Famous
Thus is really beautiful.
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Thank you, I am really glad this spoke to you 🙂 xx
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Very much! Well done 😊🌹
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So lovely!!
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Thank you 🙂 Always such a nice feeling to know that my thoughts can reach out to people! xx
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🙂 I agree, it is a wonderful feeling. 🙂 ❤
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This was so nice. You made me a little teary eyed which is a good thing. LOL my mom always says you can gauge how good a book is by the amount of kleenex that I went through. I was able to connect to your writing and I enjoy when that happens.
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Awww Jay-lyn,, thank you so much for the touching comment!! There is no better feeling, when you write something, than to know someone connected with the thoughts you tried to translate into words… You totally made my day!! (sorry for the delay… I was at work all afternoon and evening, and didn’t have much time to answer comments in between calls… But your comment followed me throughout my whole shift!! Thank you again 🙂 🙂 🙂 )
*Big big hugs*
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You are welcome. It was lovely. Sniff sniff sniff. 😄
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🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Fame can be a many headed monster. Very nice post my friend.
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Thank you, Tony 🙂 You are right, and I think there is a lot more to fear than there is to desire in the fact of being “famous” 🙂
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Ode to my Kindy Teacher
How I wish I had known her
And not outgrown her
words that had clattered out
like a runaway train.
And wandered about
off the tracks again and again
only to return where she had been
to the central theme
Which was love.
How I wish I had touched her
And somehow clutched her
subtle truths
so recklessly painted
into her wild word
by rules untainted
And wonder know
She might still be heard
Speaking from above.
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Well, I am glad I had this brief chat with myself this morning, after seeing the Daily Prompt’s “Famous” theme of the day.
This is one lovely ode to that special teacher… 🙂 And it reminded me that a couple of weeks back, I found the adress of my 5th grade teacher (when I was 9 or 10 years old). I am considering writing to him to tell him about the influence he had on me… But I still wonder if that would be creepy… I think I’d like to get a letter like that, but I can be weird, sometimes….
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I think, in truth, that I may have been thinking of a composite of several early female mentors. Although one in particular stands out who had little regard for convention in general and possibly especially not for conventional education. All the more inspiring as a result.
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Isn’t it fascinating, how we humans influence each other constantly, sometimes without even noticing it until it kicks in years later? 🙂
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I’m glad I don’t have to wish to know you. I’m glad that I already do… ♥
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Awwww thank you, Gorgeous 🙂 Same here!! *Big hugs*
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I love this post. It’s so sincere and genuine. I hope to be remembered fondly by those who know me, and that my failings will be forgotten, and it would be nice if people would say, “You would have liked her.” when I’m gone.
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Thank you, Candice 🙂 I usually prefer to hang around fiction, but once in a while I end up allowing people a little walk in my head… I am glad the genuineness shines through, when I do. I have absolutely no doubt you’ll be fondly remembered 🙂 Your kindness will live on in the hearts of your loved ones! xx
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great take Cyranny … I know you from a distance and would love to know you and Cherie better … but posts reveal a lot about us, especially this one 🙂
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Thank you, Kate 🙂 I hope we get to travel to Australia someday… I know Chéri would love to get to meet you, and so would I! 🙂 xx
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lol just posted my plan for the day in my last comment 🙂
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Wow…..just that…🤗
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It would totally make all my writing worthwhile 😉
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Writing should be what you want to express, how you want, not what anyone else thinks. Totally you.
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