An Ideas Guy
It has been just over a week into my 30s. How am I finding it? So far, so meh. By “meh” I mean “neither good nor bad”. I have been reflecting a bit, and one thing that I wanted to moan about today is my accumulation of shite. Welcome to Monday, by the way. You know a moaning is about to come because I told you.
I could write today about all the physical things, or “shite”, that I have accumulated over the years that I am starting to doubt are or will ever benefit me. But that isn’t what I mean. I mean, I've gathered all these ideas and notions since I started this silly little blog of mine, and even before. Any good creative will tell you they have a folder of some description with all the ideas that come to them stored away. I think it's fair to say that most of the time it’s on a device. I have an ideas folder in my phone’s Notes app. It works for me. Some may use a physical notebook. I would love to start using that method, but I haven’t put in the time or effort to get started.
This is what I am talking about. I feel like the potential and idea are there, but I never act on them. Something has been holding me back, and I shudder to think it is laziness. It may not be entirely, but laziness is definitely a part of it. Every week, I sit down to write this blog, and more often than not, I don’t know what I am going to write about. I have ideas. Many ideas. As I mentioned earlier, I have accumulated a lot of ideas, but I haven’t made the time to sift through them. That’s all on me. Every week, I tell myself maybe this is the week I finally sift through all these ideas, many of which I am sure are irrelevant now. Ryan Holiday often quotes someone who said, “painters like painting, writers love having written.” That sums it up for me anyway.
It's possible that now that I have written about it and shared it on the internet, I may finally pull my bootstraps up and get to work on these creative endeavours that I have had the ideas for so long. Check back in with me next week, yeah? That’s enough from me. I hope you are pursuing all your creative ideas and not just romanticizing the idea of them. Thank you for reading, and thank you for your time.
