September 8th?? September 8th was REALLY the last time I blogged?! So it's been 3 weeks. Time really, really flies guys. It doesn't matter what I am doing. I just feel like I'm going to be 100 tomorrow. I thought I'd blogged last a week ago!! Are you the same? I remember, as a kid, time used to feel like waiting for a turtle to lick up a puddle of molasses... Now I savor every moment because I feel they are disappearing like tiny grains of surface sand on a windy day. And maybe that's the point of this blog in a way... to focus on what's big to you, because the little disappears.
Was doing some research for my other blog, and was inspired by gradients. When one color fades into a different color, so seamlessly it almost looks like the two could be one uniform shade. And they could, if you backed away far enough.
I wanted to compare how an artist's gradient looked from farther away to how it looked very close up, and when I saw the close-up, it occurred to me I could see the lines of blending. It did not look seamless. But then it occurred to me, if I could fix the imperfections and unblended lines at the close-up, and was able to get an even larger close-up of the corrected close-up, you would still see more lines of blending. No matter how much you, "fix," something, the closer you get to it, the more imperfections you will see, down to the microscopic level. Until you can get to the tiniest point of existence, perfection does not exist.
So, you could spend a life-time trying your darndest to get the most, "perfect," thing, look the most, "perfect," way...Please notice, I often quote (or sometimes first-letter-capitalize) the words I don't stand by.
And when you had that perfect mesh of what you believe you're supposed to have, that gradient that may as well be one object, what have you?
Well, you have something that looks very nice.
Whether it holds moral value to you is another subject entirely.
Everything you work for, everything you do, none of it truly matters--unless it has moral value to you. Everything aside from love and happiness are just extras in your life. And when we keep trying to fix small things, we often are, point-blank, wasting our time. We, for some reason, are very good at blowing tiny interactions, tiny choices, tiny situations, completely out of proportion. And because we are giving that petty list of things meaning, whatever the list and whatever the meanings are, we focus on them and forget about what will truly fulfill us.
So when I say, "You Could Analyze Something To Death," in the blog-title, I mean it heartily. You could analyze all the tiny things that you feel need tweaked until finally, you have no more time left. In the end, will you appreciate the product of your work more than the experiences that it took to get you to that finished product?
Whether you are at a company balancing moral and sales, or at home balancing your life, this applies to you. People in your life will always tell you at certain points in the path, that something needs to be tweaked. You have to make the changes on it that are worthwhile to you. What will you be proud of more? How something looks, or the love and happiness you gave to get yourself there?
PS: This blog is my darling. I love writing in here, and I don't plan to stop making posts. I'll write in here at least once a month, if not more. Also, please feel free to ask me questions and give suggestions for topics you'd like me to discuss. :)
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Showing posts with label creativity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label creativity. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Monday, September 8, 2014
You're Not Normal, Thank God, So Quit Trying To Act Like It
I can totally relate to people who feel strange and different from everyone else.
I think you can too. Can't admit it?
You have never had times where you felt like you were the only person who felt a certain way about something? Like no one else who you were talking to could relate to it?
You never had a time in your life where what you wanted wasn't what everyone around you wanted? Whether it be out of you or whether it be something that a lot of people want (Like children? A certain career motive? College? Or a puppy? Or even chocolate? *Gasps*)?
Ever laughed at something that nobody else in the room thought was funny?
Or getting down to basics, there isn't some strange food combination that you really like, that nobody else would dare eat?
No?? Goodness, you are really boring......
I know I HAVE felt this way, and may I say I am a little proud of it?
No, I'm actually a LOT proud of it. And you should be too. That's the stuff that makes you interesting. The stuff that people don't expect.
There's nobody I love more than the so-called, "strange," ones. The ones who feel like they don't fit in.
The ones who, in actuality, aren't afraid to behave completely normal. The real normal. The one that is human, has emotions, and isn't afraid to express themselves instead of repress themselves to fit into a man-made category that our ancestors have been imposing on us for hundreds, if not thousands of years.
You see, normalcy is something that we often expect, but we never actually know. It's phony. It's not real. And the unhappiest people of all are those who try to be it--because they consistently fail--and/or--they constantly expect it out of other people, judging them, and generally living a miserable existence full of negativity and hypocrisy.
In my book...you can be happy...or you can be, "normal."
Go live your life!!!!! Parachute or something... Laugh your ass off at something no one else in the room will. You only live once. Live well. Don't put yourself in a box because you are afraid. You'll only trap yourself.
*Laughs*...Sigh...ohhh... "Normal."
It's so overrated.
Have fun :)
I think you can too. Can't admit it?
You have never had times where you felt like you were the only person who felt a certain way about something? Like no one else who you were talking to could relate to it?
You never had a time in your life where what you wanted wasn't what everyone around you wanted? Whether it be out of you or whether it be something that a lot of people want (Like children? A certain career motive? College? Or a puppy? Or even chocolate? *Gasps*)?
Ever laughed at something that nobody else in the room thought was funny?
Or getting down to basics, there isn't some strange food combination that you really like, that nobody else would dare eat?
No?? Goodness, you are really boring......
I know I HAVE felt this way, and may I say I am a little proud of it?
No, I'm actually a LOT proud of it. And you should be too. That's the stuff that makes you interesting. The stuff that people don't expect.
There's nobody I love more than the so-called, "strange," ones. The ones who feel like they don't fit in.
The ones who, in actuality, aren't afraid to behave completely normal. The real normal. The one that is human, has emotions, and isn't afraid to express themselves instead of repress themselves to fit into a man-made category that our ancestors have been imposing on us for hundreds, if not thousands of years.
You see, normalcy is something that we often expect, but we never actually know. It's phony. It's not real. And the unhappiest people of all are those who try to be it--because they consistently fail--and/or--they constantly expect it out of other people, judging them, and generally living a miserable existence full of negativity and hypocrisy.
In my book...you can be happy...or you can be, "normal."
Go live your life!!!!! Parachute or something... Laugh your ass off at something no one else in the room will. You only live once. Live well. Don't put yourself in a box because you are afraid. You'll only trap yourself.
*Laughs*...Sigh...ohhh... "Normal."
It's so overrated.
Have fun :)
Friday, August 22, 2014
Creativity Vs. Logic, the infinite battle! :P
May I just say that after my last relationship, I feel like every ounce of creativity was sucked out of me and I now have to strain like I'm lifting up 100 pound weights to gain it back?
That's a lil personal for the blog here, but I want to be real with you all. This blog--it's probably going to change a lot over the course of time. I have been in this major left-brain thing for over a year now, where I just have to really dig to get to the dreams and stuff. I am part grateful for it and in part loss, as I feel that creativity brought me a lot of happiness.
Just thinking a lot today about who I am, how I want to grow, and shape, and that will also influence the blog.
So don't expect consistency. Just enjoy the ride or leave!!! :P
That's a lil personal for the blog here, but I want to be real with you all. This blog--it's probably going to change a lot over the course of time. I have been in this major left-brain thing for over a year now, where I just have to really dig to get to the dreams and stuff. I am part grateful for it and in part loss, as I feel that creativity brought me a lot of happiness.
Just thinking a lot today about who I am, how I want to grow, and shape, and that will also influence the blog.
So don't expect consistency. Just enjoy the ride or leave!!! :P
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