We all have days we feel extremely unmotivated.
Not just the usual laziness, procrastinating kind of mood; but the kind when you just want to lay there and not do anything at all. When your thoughts are filled with work, things to be done, fun things to do, games, music, art, ideas, and more but you just feel like putting them all aside. To just be alone. And be like this.
I believe that creative expression, or even expression of any sort feeds our energy. When we don’t feel like doing anything, doing something is precisely what will help us get out of that feeling. In particular, doing something that expresses your self, your thoughts, your emotions, your mood. Exercising creative expression or simply engaging in any form of expression — writing, singing, dancing, materialising some form of pent up energy in you into the world — helps to transition yourself out of this phase.
Hence why I’m writing now. I don’t have a plan, I have no structure of what I wish to write, I’m not sure what I’ll be penning down by the end of this, I’m not sure how long I’ll be doing this; I could very well stop in the next three lines, or I could continue on for three more paragraphs, or even more. But without any drive to do anything at all, simply putting my fingers to work on the keyboard and seeing words flow would perhaps help me feel a little better, somehow. That I’m actually being productive, or that I’m creating something. That something that was just in my head a little while ago is slowly being forced out and onto my screen in the form of letters and words, sentences and paragraphs, presenting themselves as a materialisation of my messy thoughts that were bringing me nowhere moments ago.
And what do I do after they’re ‘purged out’?
We all have a part to play in this world. An identity that is in relation to another. A child to a parent, an employee to the company, a partner to a significant other, a resident in the neighbourhood, a member of a community, a member of a society, a citizen of a country, and countless others. That we are inevitably connected to one another, that a big part of our personal identity is linked to a bigger part of what we exist in, means that how we see ourselves and how we see the bigger circle are mutually influential.
We are just all trying to play our parts the best we can. It may not be evident at first sight as different roles may come in conflict with one another, and that is what makes human…
