I Just Work Here
A Public Service Announcement by Heather Lynn Gordon
Why are you chasing shadows all the time?
What do you want to wash from your eyes
With your blood
You are God from head to foot.
Oh naïve one, what are you looking for
Beyond yourself?
Rumi
Human beings are not robotic by nature but have become that way through force of habit. The force of habit is a very strong force and should not be
underestimated for it can propel itself and live on its own long after it has been created and forgotten. Habit begins when creativity is balked, when
laziness ensues and when awareness gets tired. Habit will perpetuate itself until creativity is once again initiated, laziness is ignored and awareness
is smacked in the face. Time to wake up!
Everyone needs to express, to be creative. If not, we will die wondering if
we actually did the best we could do, or if we were ever really in control of our lives. Being creative doesn’t mean being artistic, poetic or visually
gifted. It means taking responsibility for oneself and one’s life and to
take immediate action. It means to express what needs to be expressed and to do so
without choice as if the very action were a matter of survival. Being creative is using ones innate ability to move within and without the
structure of change, enabling the change to occur more freely. Michelangelo was very different than Buddha who was very different than Thomas Edison who
was very different than Henry David Thorough, but each of these men were moved by the same element, the same force of creativity from within into a
particular area of life that fit to each individual. So saying that everyone living on this planet is creative and full of ideas just waiting to manifest
is not attempting to put someone in a box with a label that says, *I’m an artist*, *I am a teacher*, *I’m an inventor*, *I am a poet.* None of that
matters. What is important is that the artist creates; the teacher teaches; the inventor invents; and the writer writes. And that each does so with such
passion, with such force that it is as if it were a matter of life and death. It does not matter what I am, what I am does nothing. It is what I do that
will expand. Every person is full of ideas and the more ideas that a person can manifest the greater that persons actions will be, the more the actions
will expand and the greater the person and the world will inevitable become.
These ideas may just well be about world economy, or science, or politics, or
art. Every aspect of this world holds a place within itself where creativity can and will
manifest. The idea is to be there when it does and to help it work for the good of yourself, your surroundings, and others.
"I don’t know. I just work here."
This is what I often tell a stranger who stops me on the street to ask me
what time it is. I found it to be the most appropriate answer for the times
in which we live. This is work you know, all of it. The earth is like a huge
corporate enterprise at which we each hold different positions and pay our own wages. It is up to each human being to find the place that they feel most
comfortable working and to go there. Be it. Find your passion. Follow your bliss. Each aspect of this world has a specific place perfectly suited for
each individual in an effort towards creating a better civilization. It is up to the individual to find that place, that niche, that spot that is theirs
and to be there moving comfortably within and without, while fully expressing the element of that place. This enterprise is growing at a rapid pace,
expanding not just in terms of population but of science, technology, communication, inventions, and ideas which are manifesting quickly and with
creative intelligent movement. Each individual must find a place that is perfectly suited for him or her to help bring their group into a harmonious
pattern with others on the path to a more civilized civilization. The potential is right here all around us and each individual must make an
unyielding effort to help it to realize.
There’s a light, a movement. It’s a fire that flows from a source within
and it is reflected in everything around you. Find it. As Neil Young once said,
"Take the time to close your eyes and look around." Look inside of
yourself, find the light, the moving force that propels you outward and onward and let
it move you to that place as if you had no choice, as if it were a matter of survival. At that very moment there is no separation between in and out, up
and down, black and white, you and me. This is heaven. And we are free.
Heather Lynn Gordon, 2001
copyright 2001-2003
