Life in Orange-Tinted Glasses

operation recharge

June 3, 2009

A friend of mine once told the pushing, overthinking me, “Don’t think too much. When you run out of the creativity juice, leave it for a while and do something else.” (Oh well that’s not really the exact words he used because it was in Filipino, haha) I thought about it and realized he has a point. There are times - and I’m not saying always - that when you push too hard, nothing comes out and you end up feeling stressed and frustrated.

And then there are these times when I’m filled with so many ideas popping out of my neurons every now and then. I take note of them so that the forgetful person that I am would have a back-up, but then when I try developing the idea, for some reason I get dissatisfied with how I’m developing it, you know that feeling that “it’s not the right word”, “oh that tune’s so forgettable”, so you think of something else.

I’ve been doing some writing now, my previous entries would indicate. But the way it’s going made me realize I need some creativity recharge. The best therapy that I know is reading, and maybe some music on the side. So that’s what I’ll do. Even artists and musicians and writers go through this. Most of them I know go on vacations, explore changes in scenery, and then something strikes the chord of their creativity. But the bad, unpredictable weather won’t permit that for me now, so my resourceful self goes to the rescue: a “change in scenery” can be a fresh perspective from an article, or a book, or a song from a different genre, or a feel-good movie, or a good conversation with a friend. Anything, I believe, can be a source of inspiration.

Perhaps there will be “critics” to this idea of “doing something else”, but I say it’s not about not having focus, coz that’s a different story, a different debate. It’s about understanding yourself, what you need, what you lack, what you can give, what you can do.

When I am needing creativity, others are needing optimism. My friend Marice shared this site via Plurk, and it’s called “GivesMeHope” or GMH. It’s a site like “FuckMyLife” (FML) but it’s for our dose of optimism and happy thoughts. It felt good reading the posts, really inspiring. I realized that there are people who don’t have “a lot” or who went through such most difficult of adversities but then they chose to hold on and believe and now they’ve survived and they’re stronger. With all of the things happening all over the world - power struggle, consumerism, economic crisis - it’s an uplifting treat.

A thinker of happy thoughts myself, I hope I could shower some of my own pixie dust over there one time. Woohoo, another addition to those “anonymous sites” I want to contribute to. :D

  

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