If I stop learning it means I am dead.

I am at this wonderful point in my life right now. I am content with my family and friends. I feel satisfied, and blessed, but stagnant. I am realizing as I blog, that I wanted to complete all of my unfinished projects, and I was procrastinating. When I think about those projects, they are what propels me through life. Those projects that I started, were all learning experiences, and started at the most creatively productive times in my life, or saddest most stressful times. This is what my life is for and about. Everyone is gifted in some way or another my gifts are expressed when I am being creative. At some point in my life, through my creations I will help, inspire, and make the world better for having been here.
Yesterday I mentioned in my blog that even as a child I felt like I needed to be doing something. That I felt like time was running out, and I was going to miss something. I think that is what it was. I was afraid to miss the opportunity to give something to the world. To be able to contribute and make my presence here a valuable thing. I don't want to be forgotten, I don't want to take as much as I can from life, without knowing that I also gave.
I can't give to the world if I don't know what is going on in it and I can't know what is going on in the world without learning. So life is like a generous circle of knowledge and guidance. I learn, I teach, I take, I give. If I continue to do this in all aspects of my life, religion, family, work, world issues, local issues, and expression of emotion I will have achieved what I want to do.
Being productive all the time is not possible for your mental and physical health, it ebbs and flows like a tide. I am searching and that will never stop, I never want to become complacent and passive in my own life. I want, and need to challenge and push the limits of my understanding, so my personal circle grows continuously. Thank goodness I have this drive or curiosity, an uncomfortable realization that I have not really accomplished anything in a while, naturally pop up from time to time.
I find everyone gets complacent, I often use to blame it on being overwhelmed with work or kiddie stuff, or both. Now I realize it is not being complacent it is just balance. I can't be pouring out creative wonderful product all of the time, there is a time where I must sit back and although I am busy with other things, I am also taking in so much from the rest of the world. It may be the news, or a story I have heard from a friend. It may be a landscape I drive past, or a certain way one of my children looks at me. There is always something to be learned and that often translates into my wanting to share the way I view it, an inspiration.
The idea is to give. Your audience may be large, it may be small, but to give is the greatest feeling in the world, it is almost selfish, but if it makes someone elses life better it must be good.
A review of what I have going on.
Writing projects
Art (painting) (crochette)
Developing womens workshop
Journalism (2 articles)
Genealogy projects
Religious study
Upgrade Grammar spelling and composition skills
I hope I inspire everyone who reads my blog. I hope everyone is inspired to embrace their gifts, develop their skills, and touch someone.
"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give" Kahlil Gibran