Kvothevia
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Kvothevia
carving out time in her day to be creative — watching old films, reading, writing, simply letting things soak in… not necessarily for research or productivity, but for finding authentic inspiration.
intentional time for creativity can take many forms. For me, it might mean free-writing until I finish a cup of coffee, or opening a book on my coffee table and writing directly onto its pages (see here for my post on coffee table books… and yes, you are allowed to write in them; they belong to you!). At times it is scrolling eBay with curiosity, or simply listening to new music on the subway — not as background noise, but with attention. The aim is not to force any one idea, but to train your attention so that inspiration has room to arrive in its own time
I think the scariest thing about being alive is realizing that you don’t live in people’s lives the way you think you do. You exist to them in the form of a few memories, a handful of impressions, maybe a story they tell about you to someone else, but never the whole of you. Never the real, loud, overthinking, self-editing, too-much, too-soft, tryi... See more
You think your intention is obvious. You think your silences are eloquent. You think your love is visible. But people aren’t watching that closely. They fill in the gaps with their own stories. They decide what your laugh means. They decide what your quietness means. They take something you did on a tired day and turn it into your defining trait. And you don’t get to edit it. You don’t get to defend the nuance. You just get to live with the version of you that lives in their head and pretend it doesn’t eat at you.
There’s a sense of entitlement to constant communication. Even when you can’t talk, the expectation is that you voice it. And if you don’t, what does that mean? That you don’t care? That you don’t love them enough?
“If you never bleed, you’re never gonna grow,’ is what Taylor Swift sings in her song the 1. Why would anyone want to remain stagnant their whole lives? Where’s the fun, the adventure, the memories? Making that move to a new city might seem impossible, but once you do it, you’ll feel like a new person.
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
Sylvia Plath.
Sylvia Plath.
joy is not a paycheck. It’s a birthright.
What they don’t realize is that solitude is not an absence; it is a presence.