There Is No Right Time

I don’t know about you but during this time of quarantine I have been having all of these creative thoughts yet when I get the chance I can’t seem to execute them.

I have sat down with what I want to write in mind yet it can’t come out. The same can go with my drawing and just about any other creative outlet I have.

When I have an overload of ideas I almost have to start over. Or for you list people, make a list and take each idea and focus on one at a time. I have a hard time with that at times because I just want to do it all but I can’t. In ways, it is when you are procrastinating and you get stressed with all you have to do but instead of working on all you need to do you watch Netflix and procrastinate some more.

The thing about anything creative you in ways have to just do it. Depending on what it is a plan or idea can help the direction you go, but there are a lot of times where just starting can be the thing that breaks the dam.

With many things I create a picture in my head, but especially when it comes to art it can put a box around whatever I am wanting to create. I’ve learned with many things in life that something doesn’t have to be one thing.

I can be extreme (I am working on changing that) so I am usually one way or another with no in-between, with many things, but being a creative person that is nearly impossible without having some conflict.

I used to think I had to stay with one form of art and that was it, but I don’t. Now that I have discovered that I think that has been a cause of the overload of ideas because now I have all of these ideas amongst different platforms.

Also, it can be terrifying to share your art with the world. For one whether or not someone plans to share a part of themselves in their art, they do. Art is criticized. Art is looked down upon. It can be hard to share a part of yourself with the possibility of being torn apart by critics and still go on and continue to create.

I am going to fail. I am going to create some subpar things. I am going to create some great things (hopefully haha). The thing that holds back me and a lot of creatives is not creating anything. A lot of my friends are creatives, and amongst us I hear us talk about all of these things we want to do but we are waiting for the “right time.”

There is no right time.

I am rewatching Criminal Minds and this time around it’s brought my creative side out. Also, thanks to Tik Tok I have a new appreciation for Matthew Gray Gubler who plays Spencer Reid on the show. He has become one of my inspirations when it comes to being an artist. He is a stereotypical theater kid who embraces his weirdness. He is all over the place and doesn’t have one thing he sticks to when it comes to his art.

He creates what makes him happy.

I think that is key when it comes to creating. We tend to create something we think the world will like and sometimes that is at the cost of what we want to do. For example, we will post something on Instagram that we think more of our followers will like over something that makes us happy but may not get as many likes.

Though we were not at all expecting 2020 to look like this, it doesn’t mean we can’t do or create something that makes us happy.

Do something that makes YOU and only you happy.