I have a theory about ideas.
I think God/the Universe/Great Mystery offers these ideas to people who can pull them off. Then if that person resists rising to the opportunity, the idea looks for someone who is more receptive.
On the day a wild idea came to you which you had no resources to implement, it seems to me that you were wide open. And maybe it came to you because someone was being a bit resistant. I also think ideas stir up their own momentum and maybe that was what happened. It got you so excited that you had to talk about it.
I get other people’s wandering ideas all the time. They come to me and I know right away this is for someone else, but I’m supposed to do something to give it more energy. Help it along. Then I just talk about it or pass it on to someone who might be able to do something with it.
Eventually word gets back to the people who are resisting and they either get off their duff and do it or they piss and moan about other people having the same idea.
The truth it seems to me is that none of us really owns an idea.
It has got a life of its own, all we do is hatch them or give them more energy until they are realized.
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