... so this is for us.<br />This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and love<br />and this is for doing it even if no one will ever know<br />because the beauty is in the act of doing it.<br />Not what it can lead to.<br />This is for the times I lose myself while writing, singing, playing<br />and no one is around and they will never know<br />but I will forever remember<br />and that shines brighter than any praise or fame or glory I will ever have,<br />and this is for you who write or play or read or sing<br />by yourself with the light off and door closed<br />when the world is asleep and the stars are aligned<br />and maybe no one will ever hear it<br />or read your words<br />or know your thoughts<br />but it doesn’t make it less glorious.<br />It makes it ethereal. Mysterious.<br />Infinite.<br />For it belongs to you and whatever God or spirit you believe in<br />and only you can decide how much it meant<br />and means<br />and will forever mean<br />and other people will experience it too<br />through you.<br />Through your spirit. Through the way you talk.<br />Through the way you walk and love and laugh and care<br />and I never meant to write this long<br />but what I want to say is:<br />Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive by making people feel a little better. Feel a little lighter. Create art in order for yourself to become yourself<br />and let your very existence be your song, your poem, your story.<br />Let your very identity be your book.<br />Let the way people say your name sound like the sweetest melody.<br /><br />So go create. Take photographs in the wood, run alone in the rain and sing your heart out high up on a mountain<br />where no one will ever hear<br />and your very existence will be the most hypnotising scar.<br />Make your life be your art<br />and you will never be forgotten.