Lessons

"Teacher, all the stories have already been told.  There is no need for me to write.  Everything that needs to be said has already been written."  

"It's true that there are no new stories,"  the teacher said.  "The universal lessons have been taking place for a long, long time.  And the same themes have influenced humanity since time began.  But no one sees that story through your eyes.  And no one else in the world will tell that story exactly the way you will.  Now return to your desk, pick up your pen, and tell the world what you see."

And now believe I have a perspective understood and appreciated; yet let go of that need to be validated outside self.  Love the process;  live the process.