And it hit me...

I have this "friend" (and yes I did use quotation marks) that really inspires me. By day he is a mild mannered mail man but by night he transforms into...okay I'm just being silly. My "friend" (yes I am going to use quotation marks every time) is a poet, singer and in my mind at least an activist. He's an artsy kinda man and he inspires me to continue exploring the arts.

I was speaking to him this morning and said "you know last night just before I fell asleep I was thinking I wish I could sing as well as you do, and could write amazing things like you do. Then I thought about us and it hit me (like a tonne of bricks) that I actually complement you. You sing and write poetry and I dance. How cool would it be if we performed together?" [that was more or less the conversation...although there are quotes that's not exactly how it went down, anyways...I digress]. It was in that moment I realised hey, I'm not half as bad as I think I am. I may not be able to write emotion evoking poetry or sing like the angels in heaven, but what I can do if paired with those talents that I don't have, can create something so amazingly beautiful that it's okay if I can't do those things. What I can do, if I do it beyond the best of my ability will carry me to be beautifully creative and an emotion evoking dancer. And I smiled (a big wide toothy smile) and felt proud of my contribution to life.

We may admire and even desire things in others. Sometimes we can work and develop such skills and/or talents that we admire, and other times we can't. We should look within ourselves and see what can add to that pot that we so desire, to create something even more amazing, even more beautiful, even more inspiring.

Be inspired. 
Go forth and inspire.