I’ll Never Love Like This Again

I love being inspired. I love that jittery excitement I get when finding something that moves me, that makes me want to be a better person, right this instant. I love being touched by reading someone’s words that express a way that I’ve felt for so long but didn’t know how to put the feeling into the concrete expression of writing.

I love finding someone or something new that I relate to in a way that makes me feel not so alone. Someone else on this little blue and green planet gets it, and gets me. Or sometimes, it’s learning a new idea or concept that just makes perfect sense. It’s finding something that makes little silent fireworks explode inside of me with joy.

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Tonight I realized that being inspired was like falling in love. I have little brief love affairs in my head with the things that inspire me. It’s almost a bit creepy and stalkerish, but I fall in love with the things that inspire me. Sometimes it’s a song that I’ve never heard before. You know, the ones that poke at your soul, and you can’t stop playing over and over and over again, until you make yourself sick of it. Sometimes it’s a new author I find, and lately after being on the internet so much with creating and networking since starting this blog, it’s finding blog posts and videos that make me just want to scream from the rooftops.

Anyone that’s fallen in love knows that moment when you realize that you will never feel this way about another person ever again. There is no doubt in your mind that you could ever be so emotionally moved by another human being, that you will never feel such love and attraction and amazement towards one person. I have to admit that this moment usually happens for me in the time that I’m trying to recover from a broken heart. It has been quite while since I’ve felt that way, but there is that moment where you truly believe that you will never find love like that person again.

Until you get over it, your heart mends, and then you do find love again. And you undoubtedly think that you will never find love like this again. Once again.

Or maybe I’m just dramatically melodramatic. But, I have a feeling that there are others of you that have gone through this feeling also. Seeing as I’m currently between heartbreaks, and have an uncharacteristically clear head from not being under the influence of being in love with anyone at the moment, I’ve been able to have this little epiphany. Or it could just be that I pathetically have too much time on my hands on this Saturday night since I am single….and apparently an abundance of time to over analyze the correlations between inspiration and falling in love.

Inspiration is like that for me. Every time I am inspired or touched by something, I have this moment where I truly believe I’ll never be this inspired like that again. Until it happens again. Sometimes it’s an hour later by something else I find on this glorious internet. Sometimes my inspirations come less frequently, and I have to wait until another week passes to be inspired again.

This week I got lucky. I’ve been enormously inspired not once, or twice, but three times, and I wanted to share them on here.

If you’ve seen the video, or read the posts, or they don’t inspire you, that’s okay. Different things inspire different people. Just like falling in love. But, I figured that they were so awesome, that it’s worth passing along in case it touches just one person that reads this blog…

The first thing that inspired me this week was a post by Adam Baker on Man Vs. Debt. The post was called How NOT to Suck at blogging. For all of the non bloggers out there, this title might not be instantly appealing. But Adam’s honest writing really spoke to me.

Within that great post, he introduced me to my second inspiration of the week in this amazing video…

This video made me fall in love with Gary, just for a few moments. I love his fast talking intensity, his cursing, down to earth, right-to-the-point way of speaking.

“There are way too many people in this room right now that are doing stuff they hate. Please stop doing that! There is NO reason in 2008 to do shit you hate. None. Promise me you won’t. Because you can lose just as much money being happy as hell.”
-Gary Vaynerchuck

Gary epitomizes the concept of personal responsibility with this video. If you don’t like what is happening in your life, change it. Maybe it’s an obnoxiously optimistic outlook on life, but I believe it with all my heart. The quote above, in the first two minutes of the video struck me the most. His FEARLESSNESS just radiates from his hyperactive voice and makes me not want to ever put up with unhappiness. It’s just incredible. So, I went and pre-ordered his book, and can’t wait until it arrives in my little mail box.

Finally, a new blogger came into my horizon. Her name is Kristin Norris of Find Yourself Lost. Her latest post called Ugly, Sticky Mess was a little shining moment of brilliance. Her raw, honest words really spoke to me. The flow of consciousness way she writes, without clear cut bullet points worked for me. It reminded me of the type of writing that I want to do more… honest, raw, authentic, however imperfect.

So thank you Gary, Adam, and Kristin for my incredible mix of inspiration for this week.

I don’t think I’ll ever be as inspired again. Until the next time, that is.

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