Inspiration Soup

This month's VAF Blog Challenge was a bit challenging for me simply because I am inspired by so many things! A photo, a movie, something someone says, these things can all resonate with me and inspire me to feel a certain way, think a certain thought or do something I wouldn't have otherwise thought of doing.

Once, as a teenager, I watched the movie Alive. The movie was a story about a plane that crashed in the Andes and told the story of the passengers on the flight. It was graphic, at times hard to watch and extremely powerful (at least for me). Moments after watching that movie, I closed myself in my bedroom with my teal painted walls covered with images of kittens and rock stars. I took out a pack of white index cards and a pen with purple ink. On the front of each index card, I wrote the name of a friend or family member. I flipped each card over one by one and proceeded to write my heartfelt gratitude and expression of love toward these important people in my life. I cried, I laughed, it was a time of deep seeded reflection. I must have only been, but 15 or 16 years old. How a movie such as a Alive can evoke such passion in me, I will never know. I can tell you this though, that was not the first time nor the last time I will be inspired in just that manner. In fact, inspiration is a main driving force in many of the things I do in my life.

Below is a collage I put together of just some of things that inspire me, as well as, some the results of said inspiration. Music, art and books inspire me to go places beyond my imagination.

The most important image though on the collage, is the image of my grandparents, now both deceased. They inspire me every single day to strive to be the best person I can be, to be a good sister, daughter, niece and friend. To me, they are my definition of family and family is my ultimate inspiration.