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It is darkest before the dawn...and dawn seems a long way off.

Instead of things getting better, they are actually getting worse. Or at least taking me back to where I was a couple of years ago. And bringing all my old fears and doubts with it. Things I really hoped I had gotten over but it seems not. I'm a creative person as you guys know but right now my creativity seems to be failing me.

I've kinda gotten stuck with this memory of something I read, something so groundbreaking and different that it never occurred to me to write about it. And it bugs me. Because now I can't write it as my own idea, I can never think of it on my own and anything like it I create will not be something I thought of. Not completely. Which I can't help thinking relates to some lack of talent on my part. How can it not? This idea is so simple, something I should have bern able to think of but I couldn't. And nothing can change that. Sure, I'll have different ideas and new ideas, but that is a cold comfort because I can never think of this idea by myself.

I know that's kinda loopy thinking but my head feels loopy at the moment and I just feel I have to get this out of my head or I'm just going to go crazy stewing over it. Just like I know I could put this down to my depression and maybe that's at the heart of it. But my head just feels baked and keeps running over the same thoughts and doubts no matter how much I want it to stop. I really hope this goes away soon.
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Added: 7 years, 5 months ago
 
ketsueki
7 years, 3 months ago
There is no such thing as an original idea, or at least nothing that someone could point to and describe it as one.

Even language, be it a crude wall graffiti, must predate the fixation of ideas in to form, and that requires the co-operation of many.

We are fortunate to live past that age, in a time where thousands of years of development have inspired a rich world of many ideas and many things that have already been done to look at.  To take as we understand intelligent life to do.  To integrate that experience in to our own memories and view of the world.  To then combine in to a new form as an expression unique to us.

Do not be caught in the false illusion that anyone makes it on their own, or that something which is obvious is not worth doing your way.  Do try to understand what drives your inspiration, and make sure to take your own spin on the core idea that it has shared with you.  Remember, no idea is original, it too was inspired by other things, even if you don't happen to know them and they weren't shared with you.
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