The Love Behind the Dream
El Amor Detrás del Sueño
A reflection on whether our deepest passions arise from a sense of something missing or from a love that is already complete.
The Love Behind the Dream
A reflection on whether our deepest passions arise from a sense of something missing or from a love that is already complete.
We're not talking here about practical needs, like breaking your hand and wanting to go to the hospital for a bandage. We're talking about your passions and dreams in life. Is the desire motivated by something missing, something that feels not okay in its absence? Or is it coming from the love for something? Because that love is going to originate from a place where nothing is missing.
The shift that happens as we mature
Even as we mature and grow, we deepen in this understanding. For example, we can start playing music early in life, and the drive comes from this sense of something missing: "I will complete myself by becoming a musician." But even that impulse can be motivated by a deeper love of life and love of music, a love that then gets robbed by the sense of something missing.
As we mature and grow, the same passion for music-making can come from a place of simply loving music. Nowhere to get to, nothing to achieve. It's just the enjoyment of the process, including the process of learning and getting better. I'm describing my own personal journey with music.