2/28/13

rich.

I realized I had been thinking too hard about it.  Not everything I said had to be profound or important or worth writing down, but then again it could be.  Any moment now, I could think up the most impressive thought anyone has ever heard.  Or it could just be more pointless crap as usual, but how do I know unless I give it a chance?  If I keep telling my brain, "No, that's not good enough," or "No, that's been said before," eventually it's is going to get fed up with me and stop throwing out ideas.  And if it stops giving me ideas how will I ever come up with better ones?

After I considered the fact that any thought of mine had the potential to be genius or at least move others in some way, I started writing almost all of them down.  At three a.m., in the bathtub, walking to the gas station for a Dew.  I just write it down.  No matter how brief or obscure the thought.  I give it a chance.  And I find I have a lot more creative ideas now.


4 comments:

  1. thats a really good habit to acquire, i do that as often as i can, here recently i've been writing down everything. i'm not sure its helping to clear my mind, but it feels good anyway. :)
    xx

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  2. "After I considered the fact that any thought of mine had the potential to be genius or at least move others in some way, I started writing almost all of them down."
    Love it. I should really get back to journaling and, like you said, writing down my thoughts. It helps to organize them. And right now, my mind is one, big, jumbled mess.
    Lookie here, you wrote down your thoughts, which just inspired me to write down mine!

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  3. Haha I do that too :) Last semester I took a Creative Writing class and my teacher challenged us to get a little book to write down our random thoughts in. I love writing in that little book! It's housed a lot of my funny observations and many lyrics!

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