New Beginnings

It's a restricting, almost suffocating feeling to not be able to sit down and write for so long. Recently, it seems like there is always some sort of wall in the way which has prevented me from penning something new and reasonable for posting. I suppose these are the hurdles all writers must face. Either we find our lives consumed with other matters that are more pressing and which keep us from sitting down to think and write, or when we finally do sit down to write, we find that we have nothing to write about. Creativity is like lightning; it flashes for a moment and consumes our every thought until it fades just as quickly when our attention is diverted elsewhere. I personally find that I am most creative when I am not actually able to sit down and write. Either I am lying down in bed, fading quickly into sleep or I am busy with school or work, with not a minute to spare, or in the company of friends or doing really anything that would keep me from writing.

I hardly doubt I am the only writer who must face this annoyance. It's unfortunate really, because it seems like my best ideas are the ones that I forget before I can jot them down. This just makes the me wonder. If all writers were able to record every creative idea from their heads and run with them, would we have more works like those of the most famous authors such as Shakespeare (who can, of course, be substituted with any other author you may prefer more)? What about the whole world? If everyone were able to devote full attention to every creative idea their minds ever entertained, would our world, our culture and our technology be even more advanced than it already is? This is either a fascinating or frightening thought. Perhaps it is best that the human mind is forgetful.

If you were hoping all of this was leading up to something that would be meaningful or applicable to your life, I'm sorry to dash your hopes. I really have no intentions of taking any of these thoughts anywhere; I simply wanted to record them out of a desire to write. It's been too long. Though I'm not one to make New Year's resolutions, it just seems fitting to make this post into a new beginning. Over the last few months, I have not been nearly as involved with blogging as I have been in the past and I want that to change.

Here's to a new year and a new beginning, filled with many new ideas, most of which will likely be forgotten before they have a chance to be written about but some which will undoubtedly find themselves posted here.

- Sean