RE: @NoNamesLeftToUse: Genius or Insanity?
Wow, not sure how you're going to take this, but I'm still stuck on the fact that you're under 40 (I thought you were a good decade, maybe 2, older!)
How exciting to still have your life, or the second, third, fourth act -however many you like and need - still ahead of you. Also, while I'm stuck on Time, surprised you've been creating art, in earnest, for only 5 years.
It takes a lifetime to find one's voice/style as an artist (yes, I know you started at 12 - your encounter sounded like love at first sight, or an epiphany, but still...)
Anyhow, I ramble, and diverge. I'll leave you with an apt quote that I'm quite fond of (since I think in quotes, and tend to drop one or two when speaking to you). This is by Baudelaire - a great, troubled, troubling poet:
"You have to be always drunk. That’s all there is to it—it’s the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk.
But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk."
Sweet dreams, @nonameslefttouse
You're turning into one of the most interesting people I've ever met. I'll give you that one.
I'm sure you can tell the title and theme here today was loosely based on a recent conversation we had. I thought I'd have some fun with it.
I've always been the creative type, but I spent too much time focusing on attempting to live a normal life, like everyone else. I'd still daydream though. I was taking in creativity in the form of entertainment, and not getting anything out it in return. I can't remember even one of the meme's I saw on Facebook today. Not one. If I went there to look again, it would be an entirely new set. I just thought it would be a good time to start being interesting. I can remember my post from yesterday, so that's a good start.
Maybe I do seem older than I am. That's fine. Speaking of being drunk... it was only few years ago a woman at the beer store asked me for ID.
Yeah, recognized title and smiled to see it 🤓
There’s a magic to timing, speaking up when you’re ready. Up until that moment all is research and apprenticeship... I’ve come to feel the same way about so-called ‘writer’s block’. I neither fight, nor question those arid periods, but view them as vital - when the soul is being readied for fresh utterance.
Good to hear you forget, easily. There’s wisdom, there, to always be beginning... ✨🧞♂️💫
That writer's block stuff... that's like calling an apple and wondering why it's not showing up. How can someone get an idea if the only thing they think about is getting an idea...
Forget about the idea you want and go for a walk. ... then run home before it's too late.
I'm the opposite. I always think he is in his early 20s- but he is 37!!
Haha, maybe our friend is like a Rorschach test & we project onto him our inner age — which makes me Ancient & you just outta your teens 🤣 @sandrina.life
not even old, "ancient"! :D @yahialababidi come on, you must be in your late 20s