The act of creation
Every night, try to spend some time creating something. Anything. It can be a simple sketch or scribbled words, with little care of whether it is code or just thought given form. Don't think too much about it. Try to just do it.
I like to think of it as tension that builds within me from the endless rhythm of life. We spend every day doing more or less the same thing. Every day, I just do things instead of creating them. I want to create things, will them to life with my hands. I want to see them, interact with them. And thus from that rhythm is tension born. It builds and builds with no release.
Perhaps it's a yearning for control; for expression. Our world is moving so fast, so quickly, speeding up every day as a new things comes out. AI, technology, art, music; all accelerating to the speed of light. All we do is consume one thing and when we are done with that, we prepare our palate for the next thing to consume. An infinite feed made for infinite consumption.
The only antidote is to participate in this holy act of creation. To create instead of consume. Your thoughts, your feelings, your ideas – put them into something else.
So I urge you1, put down the phone. Close the feed.
Create.
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I spent an evening writing this to myself. Naturally, I eventually felt the need to share it. If anything, to lay my thoughts bare. ↩