Writing is probably my only creative outlet right now in life and it’s one I enjoy immensely, which is why I began this blog over two years ago now. Unfortunately, I’m coming to learn that not everyone is going to enjoy my passion and see the good I’m trying to generate through my words. In fact I had this happen just recently when someone left me comments both on Facebook and through email criticizing my site’s content and even going so far as to question my recovery and spirituality. Sadly, I allowed this person to really get to me for about 24 hours until I realized deep within, just how far off base they truly were from understanding the heart of my writing and even me.
I started this website with a tagline that says “A blog that looks for the spirituality in everything” and that’s precisely what I try to do in each and every entry. Many of my articles usually originate from areas of my life I find myself struggling in, like with this person who hasn’t seemed to like the content of the entries they’ve read. At first, I tried to convince them offline through email about the overall positivity I try to have in everything I write, as it was never my intended purpose to maintain a blog that would add any more negativity on this planet than it already has. Unfortunately, it became quite evident after two of their email responses that they weren’t going to be able to see that, no matter what I said. Needless to say, I wasn’t feeling very good about myself after their comments, because there’s still a part of me that continues to own what others say about me, even if it’s not true. Thankfully, a number of my friends and peers spoke with me after that and reminded me of how much my blog has helped them, others, and even myself.
I’m not sure why I keep on allowing some negative things others sometimes say of me to stick to me for a while, but I know I still do and it’s apparent I have more work to do on myself with this. Regardless, I don’t think it’s spiritually healthy to ever put down anyone’s passion in life, like this person did with my writing. To me this isn’t someone who has my best spiritual interests in life, hence the reason why I chose to remove them from it after this incident.
In the end, all of this clearly reminded me of my growing up years where I allowed so many of my attempts at being creative to be thwarted and negated by everyone around me. Today, I am doing my best to only allow those in my life that are going to uplift and support those attempts, instead of those trying to tear them down. Nevertheless, I honestly wish this person the best in life and feel no ill will towards them at all, not one bit. And I’m also grateful for all my friends who helped remind me of something that hopefully one day I won’t so easily forget.
Writing is definitely my deepest passion in life right now and one I continue to place my heart and soul in. I truly do my very best to look for the spiritualty in everything like I did with this incident and it’s my prayer that each of you may see that, as well as find my words to be positive and uplifting. You see that’s all I’ve ever intended for this blog from the very beginning, and hopefully one day this person will end up seeing that too…
Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson