Lately when I try to sit down at the computer to write, I feel like I could be jumping off a cliff.
Kurt Vonnegut wrote, “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” And what a great way to say it. Creativity can feel like a chore. Often it’s not any fun, and I’d almost rather clean my kids’ bathroom than pour my heart into any project in front of me. It can be exhausting and infuriating and draining and exhausting again. I can’t be alone feeling this way can I?
But you know what? When I am successful, when I do create and make something, even something less than wonderful, there’s no other feeling like it. It is a soaring, a feeling of flying higher than high. It does feel like growing wings and soaring away from a certain death. (You know, if I knew really what that felt like.)
And that’s the feeling I’m chasing. That’s the moment I want to see and feel over and over again. That’s why I sit down at my computer or with a big piece of white paper. And it’s also why I jump off the edge of the cliff again and again.
Sinem says
Nowadays creativity is hitting me randomly. I decided to do DIY projects and more blogging. Thank u for inspiration.