Blogtober 16 – Train of Consciousness
Grrr… I’m a day behind because on Sunday I became overrun with some emotions. Emotions are dumb. I was also super tired from spending the day at Six Flags: Discovery Kingdom. So now I gotta catch up.
Blogtober is hard. In some ways, I’m making it harder because I don’t want to write much about writing. I’m reserving writing about writing for the Wondering Project on my Patreon. That’s my daily writing meditation project for 2023. Blogtober isn’t like working on a story or a novel, where I can just pick up where I left off. Each day has to be its own thing. Or should be. Or maybe it doesn’t… maybe that’s the constraint I’ve placed upon myself because that’s what other people do. Huh. Maybe another time, I’ll do it as one long essay or story, not quite on the level of nano raymo, but one story or project.
This has me wondering… how often do we confine or constrain ourselves by arbitrary limitations that only exist because we make them exist? Sometimes those boundaries come from external sources such as societal norms and such. But, how often do we let our internal preconceptions of how we feel the world should work guide our choices and actions?
This isn’t just limited to writing. This is all of life. Just writing this makes me wonder what I’m unconsciously doing to limit myself. I have a feeling this idea will linger in my brain and pop up when I run into places where I’m enforcing some kind of limitation upon myself.
It reminds me of the most dangerous sentence in all of business. We’ve always done it that way. It’s easy to fall into safe, comfortable patterns. This is not the first time I’ve had some of these thoughts, but I let them go too quietly, too quickly, too often.
That’s my blog tober train of consciousness for today.
