Live Passionately

 dive for dreams

dive for dreams

or a slogan may topple you

(trees are their roots

and wind is wind)

trust your heart

if the seas catch fire

(and live by love

though the stars walk backward)

honour the past

but welcome the future

(and dance your death

away at the wedding)

never mind a world

with its villains or heroes

(for good likes girls

and tomorrow and the earth)

in spite of everything

which breathes and moves, since Doom

(with white longest hands

neating each crease)

will smooth entirely our minds

-before leaving my room

i turn, and (stooping

through the morning) kiss

this pillow, dear

where our heads lived and were.

Dear Fellow Warriors,

I’m writing to you today with an inspired heart. This poem written by e.e. cummings is such an inspiration. Cummings was such an innovative artist of his craft, not afraid to branch away from convention and pursue his passion for words without shame.
But this poem is more than just a fun read. These lines give us a powerful insight into our role in this world. Dive into your dreams, Cummings says. In other words--live passionately! We have been given this time on earth, not to waste on things we don’t love, but to find that one thing we are passionate about and go after it with all of our hearts. This is our chance to spend every day loving what we do and using that love to bless other people.


Each and every one of us has a calling given specifically to us that we are to use to make a difference to the world. Yet, life has a tendency to get in the way of allowing us to pursue this calling. As women especially, we can fall into a routine--our jobs, families, and homes take first priority. The ability to care for our families is such a privilege, but as a result of this, unfortunately our desires tend to get put on the back burner. It is easy to get numb to what is going on around us--to get caught up in the little, everyday tasks, and forget that there is a bigger world around us. Many of us want to be passionate, we long to get fired up about the issues we see--issues like sex trafficking, and injustice to women, children, everyone--but being passionate takes so much energy and time. Two things we usually don’t have at the end of the day.


But…though this is true, I, for one, refuse to settle for that! I am on a mission to strip away the non-essentials in my life, to open up my time for the things that really matter. Early this year, I realized how tired I was of not being able to feel passionate about anything because I was too tired or busy. Too much of the time I just felt numb or I ignored the big issues. I vowed that my goal this year is to simplify my life and open up to the things I am passionate about.


I am writing to encourage all of you to “dive for dreams”--to fall into passion and purpose without reservation or hesitation. Live your days to the fullest--“trust your heart…honour the past but welcome the future”. If it is but a thirty-minute segment of your day, find your passion and give it that time. If you write down an idea, or plan, or create but one thing you are passionate about in a day, that’s one more thing of passion that now exists to benefit the world.


Readers, let’s get passionate! Let’s get inspired! Let’s dance away your death at the wedding because the world needs us and we can make a difference if we are passionate enough to go after it!

By: Brittany Howard (Co-Founder and Feature Writer)


Poem retrieved from http://www.fandelem.com/eecummings.html#dive