Phone fully charged? Check.
Full sun in hopes of absorbing necessary mood boosting vitamin D? Check.
Enough time to sufficiently compile some potentially meaningful words? Check.
Free of distractions? Ummmmm...
Brain engaged and ready to stream copious amounts of awesomeness down through my fingertips and onto the screen providing fulfillment to my soul as well as joy and inspiration to all who may encounter said awesomeness? Well...
I may be getting a bit ahead of myself here.
Truth be told, I want to be able to write things that are going to have an impact in this world, to both myself and others. But somehow it seems that the more I try to accomplish this, the more frustrated I become and the less inspired I am. Recently a writer friend blogged about writing more from her heart and less about how to's and helpful tips and tricks for everyday life. It's raw. It's vulnerable. It silly, isn't it? Could it actually be a good idea? Dare I say, even interesting? I'm thinking there's a chance!
Only recently have I discovered that over the last several years I've actually lost a lot of my self-confidence that I worked so hard to achieve. I allowed people to take that from me, and now I'm in a place where I am ready to take it back. I truly felt that none of my posts were creative enough, interesting enough, or worth enough to bother posting. Well that seems to have accomplished nothing more than a six year drought! Time to ask myself,
"Self, what's the worst thing that could happen from you simply going back to your carefree roots and taking a chance on throwing your heart out there with occasional grammatical errors and imperfect sentence structure?"
"Well Self, you could get hurt. Even worse, you run the risk of looking ridiculous and figuratively sticking your foot in your mouth!"
"Okay, well I've been hurt trying to protect myself anyway, and isn't ridiculous kind of my thing?"
"Tru dat. Carry on."
Well alrighty then. I'm back!
