You said:
"It really is a great feeling.…. (mine found me), but if you do find one (and you know you will once you have), don't ever take it or them for granted.
She has no idea I exist….. she'll most likely never know what she has done for me, unless I put out a book on all the thoughts she has inspired in me, and then for her to some how learn of my book and read it."
Jinamuro- This is so lovely, so romantic, so beautiful....you could make her aware of you and your valuing of her. If she has inspired you, she would surely treasure you back. You could let her enjoy your work knowing it was of her....inspiring you. If you let her know you would be giving her something that I expect she would carry with her the rest of her life.....you would always be a part of her as well. Sometimes muses fly away.....she may stay if she knows you need her, or she at least could be inspired by you.
As to having muses. I suppose I've had many in my life in many forms, to varying degrees. There are a couple I revisit in my heart and mind from time to time... the most inspiring and precious of them. As to being a muse. I have been a muse from time to time I guess now that I think of it. I have been one for a photographer, an artist, a song writer...... I think though that is a tragedy that I never saw the drawing, never heard the songs. I only got to see the photograph. It feels good to know you've inspired someone but if you never get to see the result....then it is less real to you. Muses can become despondent without love from their inspired one, without understanding what they mean to them.
My greatest wish in life has always been to be someone's favorite muse and the great love of his life......It's not ego, it's the need to blossom fully in what you were meant for. If you feed your muse she may become even more brilliant for you, you may only be seeing the bud of her she may blossom more fully for you.
Whatever you do though, even if you do not tell her you are beautiful for loving her.