The stupid outlook keeping you from writing!
Are you a hoarder who collects things that might come in handy someday in the future?
Do you have a wardrobe full of clothes you rarely use?
Is your pantry filled with grocery you don’t even know you have?
Do you buy skin masks or toiletries you never apply?
Do you have a full library of books and music you never read and listen to?
Are you rather a greedy accumulator than a voracious reader?
Ask yourself when you finally get the chance to wear those clothes you bought on the shopping date with friends, or put the stuff from your saggy bag into the expensive purse you thought you deserved to get in your latest visit to the brand center.
In her precious book The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron talks about the notion of the shadow artist. That which is born “ …caught between the dream of action and the fear of failure.”
The idea of the perfect, the practical and the real , prevailing over the imaginative, the ideal and the artistic; the educational standards looming large in the choices we make, even to our own inner “baby artist” is where the tragedy begins.
