Now that I am older, I care less and less about job titles. I don’t want to know what you do to pay your bills and keep clothes on your back. I want to know what moves you, what grabs your interest and what makes your heart bleed.
Hence, for me, I want to lead a creative life.
Not everyone is lucky enough to be able to do what they want, but I can work towards making my life better and filling it with the things that speak to me and make me happy. I want to care less about material assets and more about beautiful things like art, music, friends and love. I want to live my life as I picture it in my head.
Just between you and me, I have a tendency to procrastinate and put things off, even though I always have the best intentions to get stuff done. I have thousands of ideas and plans for things I want to do and yet never seem to get around to actually doing any of them. Possibly I am scared of never getting them quite right... but then perfection is boring anyway, yeah?
For my birthday this year, one of my very best friends sent me a gorgeous present of a journal and since I received it, I have been racking my brains for a good purpose for it. There is pretty much nothing else on earth that holds as much possibility to me as an empty book and I feel some pressure to at least fill this beautiful book with something worthwhile of its potential. Even more so as it was such a special gift from someone I love. <3
So today, as I got to thinking about this idea of a creative life, I decided that I was going to fill this book with a list. Everything that I want to achieve and create, I will write in there. Not chores or things like what to get at the shops, but anything related to making my life better; from going to Melbourne to see the Tim Burton exhibition to buying frames for all the art prints I am waiting to put up to piano lessons to getting another tattoo to random drawings to quotes or lyrics that ring true or amuse me.
I might not get around to accomplishing a lot of it and as such, refuse to put time limits on anything, but they are the ideas, plans and dreams that inspire me to get off my arse and do something with my day, even if it’s just a baby step towards something greater. They are my creative life.
So yeah, that’s what I spent my morning philosophising on.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this idea or suggestions of stuff I need to add to my book?
I adore this post. Love the honesty, the truthfullness and most of all the motivation behind it... to have a life you know you deserve.
ReplyDelete<3 A baby step is still a step. Can't wait to see what comes out of this...
If anything maybe photos or pictures from that a memorable or inspirational possibly?
Oh gosh, I feel the same way about an empty journal. Of course, nowadays, due to my reprehensible handwriting--sometimes even I can't read it--I'd be more likely to keep an electronic journal. But there's something about the power of a written, bound book that stirs me. That said, I have a load of these around my house with very little written in them that's of any substance. Sometimes my kids find them, and I never see them again. But anyway, I think yours is a great idea and agree with Tanis, above.
ReplyDeleteWhat a sexy journal shot ;)
ReplyDeleteOh the phenomenon that is an empty journal. It's almost nerve wracking even once you get an idea of what to write, just opening the book and putting the pen to the paper. I always ask myself:"Is this really what I wanna do?" and then I write what I need to and forget about it, coming back to it around three months later and picking up where I left off...
I like your idea for the journal :)
And I agree with Tanis to include little clippings. Or, if you have a ticket stub to a movie that was completely amazing with a bunch of great friends, tack it in there to remind yourself that you went out and saw a movie and that it was the best night of your life! :) Instead of only putting goals, maybe once in a while put an accomplishment, no matter how little it is.
Stick a Starbucks receipt in and scrawl "Gave myself the time to sit back and smell the coffee". A book of goals can be somewhat intimidating.
PS- I want updates on this thing. Make it a blog series! XD
This made me teary *hugs*
ReplyDeleteI also <3 this part cause sometimes people don't have a choice how they survive in today's nasty & greedy world.
Now that I am older, I care less and less about job titles. I don’t want to know what you do to pay your bills and keep clothes on your back. I want to know what moves you, what grabs your interest and what makes your heart bleed.
thanks *hugs*