it was never under your command

You decide what you do with the endless stream of ideas, the urges and the hunches, the inspiration and the passion.

Once picked up, some of them will stay with you for life. Others will leave. Sometimes without you noticing.

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Original story 2023 09 24
Rewritten 2026 06 26

“You have the right to work, but for the work’s sake only. You have no right to the fruits of work.”
and
“Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender.”
Bhagavad Gita

And there is something about not being lazy in there too, but for now I’m just gonna go with the assumption that your art has the potential to devour you, if left unexpressed.
That the option of laziness is not on the table, not under it, nor within a five mile radius.

I’m going to label it a case of eating or being eaten, but between you and your art.
Where every time the idea comes you roll your eyes thinking:
“Please tell me this one is not for me. I haven’t even gotten my head around the last one!”

But what if you would release any idea of you having to actually do, shape or manage it?
That even your skill and experience are not meant to be what you are relying on right now.
That it wants you in your purest, most receptive state. Not like a vessel, but like a doorway.
A gate from the world of ideas into reality.

The ideas pick you.

Welcome everyone, but do not name it yet nor get attached to its presence.
There is still a long way to go before it is manifested in a recognizable form and even longer before it grows into maturity.

They need us as facilitators and as stewards, using skills on the fly we didn’t even know we had.
They need us to be a strong gateway or lay the path for them into the world.
Let the idea come through, and guide it into this world.
We do not know if this is their moment to be manifested in true form, nor do we know how long they will stay on this earth.

And it is not our job to know, either.

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~Suzanne Beenackers
Catacombe
become the Rock Star you were born to be

it was never under your command
was the 4th episode of What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today

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