Follow Your Dreams

My friends,
I can't help but notice lately that my days tend to begin with energy and ambition. I begin my drive with utter conviction that "tonight is gonna be the night" I finally sit down and get some writing done. I drive for nine or ten hours, excited all the while, amping myself up by reviewing the book's plot in my head for the thousandth time and occasionally dictating a detail or two to my phone's notebook. Finally, I park for the night, sit down, open my laptop, and stare at the screen for a solid twenty minutes while my heart sinks slowly down to the bottoms of my feet. I close my laptop, lie down, and stare discontentedly at the bottom of my upper bunk wondering all the while where the words I'd been rolling around in my brain all day possibly could have gone.

To say that the prospect of once again turning in for the night without having written a single word is infuriating would be a gross understatement. All of mental energy goes to my current job seven days a week, leaving nothing left with which to express my creative side.

Here is the takeaway from this whole debacle: Follow your passion. If you want true inner peace, do everything you can to avoid being in a position where you're a slave to your job. My present position has only the purpose of securing a humble but debt-free future for myself and my family where spare time will no longer be a pipe dream.
All the money in the world isn't worth sacrificing your happiness for.
At the present, however, I'm going to stare upward and try to sleep in hopes that tomorrow I still possess the determination to express in writing the anthology that has now become one of the most important tasks of my life.

May the wind always rise under your wings,
~Wind Song

Comments

[Great White Prime]

Just do your best and try not to get overwhelmed.