I must be out of my mind, 2 posts in a row? Without taking a month’s break in between them? Oh motivation fairy where have you been?
“Let your words flow” -Me, just now
There was a thing we did, in my sophomore English class. It was called a snapshot journal, and it was very similar to how I write my blogs. The way it worked was you would write for 10 minutes, and that was it, but you couldn’t stop. You weren’t allowed to put the pencil down and think, you had to just continuously write. I don’t know what happened to that journal, I don’t know where those entries are, but those entries are the most honest with myself I think I’ve ever been. I’m distracted, my thoughts are leading somewhere else, but I might circle back. I know this site is basic, and that’s not really a design choice, I just suck at programming and design, but I think that’s alright. I like the idea that this site is mine, and sometimes I can appreciate not having anything extra. I like to imagine it lets the writing speak for itself, which is probably not a great thing, considering the writing isn’t very good, but it’s something. Bah, fishing for compliments again, please ignore that. I suppose fishing for compliments isn’t entirely the correct statement, It’s the goal, but technically that is just self deprecating. People use self deprecation all the time, and it’s almost always fishing for compliments. Try it sometimes, wait for someone to make a self deprecating joke and then agree with the statement, it will clearly not be what they were trying to accomplish. Back to the snapshot journal. I think that’s what I’m trying to accomplish with this blog. I’m trying to gain that honesty with myself again, even if it’s hard. Because truly, just writing, not stopping, not really thinking about whats happening or reeling yourself back “on task” is how you can get your subconscious mind talking, and if you can talk to your subconscious- lost my train of thought. Something about being in tune with your subconscious mind and letting it guide you towards better decisions, I’m not sure. One other part of this is simply to try and let other people see into my thought process, because I don’t know how to describe it and people don’t know how to understand it.
Goodbye motivation fairy, I’ll see you in another 3 months.
-M