Memory

The weight of memory keeps her from finding joy - Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things)

its next to impossible to not be weighed under memory. It is the source of what we can expect from life, our fears, our anxieties and our hopes. All deeply rooted in the past and not much to do with actuality. While life plays songs with the randomness of a radio, our minds think in planned playlists based on past knowledge. We see what we are looking for and only allow novel experiences to flow through the seams of our expectations.

Get the bad ‘X’ out

In art school as beginners we had this philosophy driven into us. ‘Get the bad drawings out of your system’. And its such a great way to look at our everyday doings. We fear we might not be good and that fear paralyzes us from actually doing the work.

Be persistent! Get those 100 or 1000 bad pages of writing out of your system and good writing is just after it, get those bad dishes you cook out, get those blog pieces, bad films, bad music, bad dancing, bad anything out of your head into this world and let the world take care of it. Flow from creation to creation, you can only be bad for a certain number of times.

Not acting clogs the bad inside of your system. It constipates your flow and even if you do churn up a little good, it will be strenuous and not conducive for a long run. Do it, keep doing it! Its as simple as that.

Give up

Theres a huge emphasis on ‘Never Giving Up’. But it is more important to give up on the things that don’t serve the larger goals in life. Time and resources are finite and beckon to be used on meaningful things. Not giving up should be reserved to only the most important endeavors. To find abundant time and resources for them to thrive. We carve out and consume time for it to be never available again. Does it serve our goal to lasting happiness or does it serve the status quo?