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A blank screen – arghhhhh!!!

Getting stuck for something to write is silly, we never get stuck for something to say. Well I don’t anyway, I never get talking block.

When I first looked at this blank screen on WordPress today, for a moment I pondered what to write and nothing came up, writers block I told myself (excuses). Then I wrote a few paragraphs, and thought, that was pretty shit.

I deleted it.

Now I am writing this instead. Is this any better? Probably not. If only I hadn’t deleted the other post, you could be spared this.

The fact is, it is still better to write something everyday and share it, than to share nothing at all. As the more you do something, the better you get at it.

There is a good deal of pressure to make perfect, but perfect is another one of these things we are brainwashed to try and achieve, that we will never achieve, and anyway perfect is boring.

I’ll be back tomorrow, the next day and so on, because creating something is far better than never trying.

What do we really see?

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What will you see today?

Will you see what your eyes really see or will you see what you mind has told you to see?

I have spent a lot of my life as an adult seeing what my mind allows me to see. That is rarely the real world, it’s mainly the biased mind that I and society has told my eyes to see.

I have started over the last few years to learn the skill of seeing the world as it is. Seeing first, processing the vision second.

It seems an almost impossible thing to be able to do, and that’s what makes it so fascinating, challenging and not possible to resist doing and improving.

I have seen things that I have never seen before. But the vision is still blurry, I wonder what the results will be once I finally remove the film that society has impaired my vision with? How will my life change by not seeing the world through my mind first, a mind that has been tarnished with the views, bias and judgements of others.

I wonder if we would build better, create different and see solutions to problems that we’ve never seen before?

It is not easy to do, but again that is the exciting thing about it.