"but when I got home, ... creative explosion of writing, artmaking, documentary film editing, music composition, ..."
Gee, where did you take the mental energy for that after an, presumably, mentally exhausting workday, and then creative stuff to boot... I don't feel like doing anything on a workday after work.
"but when I got home, ... creative explosion of writing, artmaking, documentary film editing, music composition, ..."
Gee, where did you take the mental energy for that after an, presumably, mentally exhausting workday, and then creative stuff to boot... I don't feel like doing anything on a workday after work.
Maybe you haven’t found your passion yet. Once you do, you’ll race home to get going on it—provided you don’t have a job that sucks too much out of you (in which case that might need looking at).
Simon Rodia conceived and built the Watts Towers every day when he got home from work for many years. He was in such a hurry to get home and get to work that he found traffic very frustrating. Then one day he had a brainstorm. He put a police strawberry light on top of his car and flashed it to get people out of the way. It worked great until one day someone told him the police were looking for him. He dug a hole on his property and buried the car. Problem solved!
Personally, I have found the only way to pursue what I want to do is live where I work. I need a lot of tools, a lot of materials, make a lot of noise and fire and I love living with it all. I don’t want to leave work, it is too interesting there.
Define "passion". My name on here is not for naught. I am interested in a lot of things :D I was hit much harder by the toilet paper shortage than others - I need those for my project TODO lists, nothing else is long enough! (ok ok, actually I upgraded to a computer, a... while... ago... but, the idea of the statement is still right)
Haha, in that case, maybe you already are doing your passion and don’t realize it, then! Or maybe you would feel it’s more creative if you assimilated the information you are hogging into blog posts or something like that :-)
Actually I'm a dilettante maker of music, and builder of things related to it. It's those kind of projects that have taken quite a backseat for a couple years. Well, especially 2 years. I resent the powers that be for doing to us what they're doing, but on top of that, I resent them for forcing me to make some new topic areas my "hobby", that was not by choice. (some would argue it was, I could also buy a TV again and hook myself up to the matrix, but I don't like the zombie feel)
"but when I got home, ... creative explosion of writing, artmaking, documentary film editing, music composition, ..."
Gee, where did you take the mental energy for that after an, presumably, mentally exhausting workday, and then creative stuff to boot... I don't feel like doing anything on a workday after work.
Maybe you haven’t found your passion yet. Once you do, you’ll race home to get going on it—provided you don’t have a job that sucks too much out of you (in which case that might need looking at).
“You’ll race home…”
Simon Rodia conceived and built the Watts Towers every day when he got home from work for many years. He was in such a hurry to get home and get to work that he found traffic very frustrating. Then one day he had a brainstorm. He put a police strawberry light on top of his car and flashed it to get people out of the way. It worked great until one day someone told him the police were looking for him. He dug a hole on his property and buried the car. Problem solved!
Personally, I have found the only way to pursue what I want to do is live where I work. I need a lot of tools, a lot of materials, make a lot of noise and fire and I love living with it all. I don’t want to leave work, it is too interesting there.
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I love that anecdote and am saving it!!
Define "passion". My name on here is not for naught. I am interested in a lot of things :D I was hit much harder by the toilet paper shortage than others - I need those for my project TODO lists, nothing else is long enough! (ok ok, actually I upgraded to a computer, a... while... ago... but, the idea of the statement is still right)
Haha, in that case, maybe you already are doing your passion and don’t realize it, then! Or maybe you would feel it’s more creative if you assimilated the information you are hogging into blog posts or something like that :-)
Actually I'm a dilettante maker of music, and builder of things related to it. It's those kind of projects that have taken quite a backseat for a couple years. Well, especially 2 years. I resent the powers that be for doing to us what they're doing, but on top of that, I resent them for forcing me to make some new topic areas my "hobby", that was not by choice. (some would argue it was, I could also buy a TV again and hook myself up to the matrix, but I don't like the zombie feel)
Sounds intriguing! Makes me think of Brian Dewan (http://briandewan.com/) as he builds his own instruments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnOQtUemjG8
Never return to the Matrix, no matter how desperate you get!!