"Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."
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I was always a strange girl. I don't know about you guys, but I suspect that if you're following me you might be the same way.
Ever since I was little, I always had the keenest sense that there's a world of magic just a breath away from our detection. Nobody really got it, but that was okay. I used to write about it, tell my siblings stories about it.
My imagination has always been so vivid that I can practically SEE it, shimmering there just out of reach: fantastical creatures, opalescent courts of sidhe, ancient trees who talk in the sound of rocks rolling against grass, labyrinths of intrigue, midnight revels full of beauty, splendor, dancing, and the high sound of forest flutes.
I always felt I belonged somewhere that wasn't this strange planet so filled with anger, and violence, and pain.
I was a teenager when I discovered the word meant to signify "a longing for somewhere you've never been": "hiraeth".
And while I've done a pretty splendid job of fitting into the human world (most days anyway 😉), this sense of hiraeth has never left me. It fills my thinking, inspires my art, stirs melancholy, fuels happiness.
I wouldn't give it up for anything, though. And while I still long for - in Tolkien's words - those "white shores, and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise" - I find my magic in my profession these days, and I find my purpose in helping to heal this world and make it just a little bit better in the tiny ways I can.
So if you're out there and you feel like a mermaid out of water, or a faerie without wings - you're not alone, my friend! And as much as it hurts being here sometimes (particularly if you are an empath), take some comfort in the knowledge that we were placed here for a reason; and the smattering of undimmable magic we carry in us was placed there to make Earth just a little bit better and a little bit brighter.
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