So, we’ve got this brand spanking new-year. 365 new days labeled 2010, well I guess 354 new days. My views on new years are always sprinkled with dreams and doused in optimism, I have grown fairly optimistic in the past three years, I have to say it makes life a heck of a lot better. All the lovely clichés, “you reap what you sow” and the like are in a sense correct, if you believe in good, you’ll see good.
Thus far, I have seen a lot of good. Knowing that 354 more brand new days await me, I think this trend of good days will continue. Last year like many people in my field I lost my job. I have, for the past nine months enjoyed what has been referred to as “funemployment” ~ I know about 30 other folks who’ve experienced the same thing. Sure, it’s fun. There is another side to it all though, the side that begs, “hey, what in the hell are ya going to do now?” Ah, yeah that side. It’s a question I haven’t heard once, I have heard it everyday for the past nine months – sometimes multiple times a day. I know I am not alone in that one. Surprisingly, losing my job did the exact opposite of what most thought it would do, it inspired me, it made me look beyond the job I thought I would have for a few years, it made me look at what I really want to do. I want to create.
I was working in pre-press, it certainly was fun ~ in fact, I loved it. I was learning so much all of the time, adjusting images, photographic products. But, I wasn’t creating I was altering. I want to create. Creating is a blast, in creating ~ for me anyway ~ it gets a little tough somewhere around that lack of a real deadline and managing my time. But, I’m learning.
So with this new month of January, this new year colored 2010 and this new decade I say it’s time to create, it’s time to learn. Surely, I am bringing in a plethora of ideas and creations with me from 2009 ~ but they feel brand new. I am creating art, experience and love sweet love. With the addition of web design classes I am creating new connections in my brain (AWESOME!) as well as a new set of skills to add to my ever-growing arsenal of tools.
However late it may be Happy New Year! Now do what I am going to do and get off of your butt and create. Create something new, no matter what it is. Make it happen.
Most of all enjoy the process, the process is half the fun.
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