Work is a four-letter word.
Sometimes it does seem like a curse word.
Work feels never-ending , never done , and never enough.
As I try to muster the joy originally I felt at the prospect of my 100-day challenge of writing , the weariness of my mind and tiredness of my consciousness make heavy the lids of my eyes , drawing me downward. This feeling is the antithesis of awakedness. It’s the ennui of a 10 hour work day most of which was spent at a computer – much like now – typing communications and computer code – much like now. It occurs to me that this stream-of-consciousness writing may be improving my writing not a whit & that this entire exercise may be pointless and
wow. Took a quick break to find a thesaurus … found this interesting topic instead : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_psychology
Cool stuff, including an interesting correlation : My first real BLOG POST here , was entitled EMERGENCE. Turns out one of the precepts of this psychological discipline is also called EMERGENCE.
In the “dalmatian” picture that visually illustrates the concept , a dog is hidden among dots in the picture that serve to hide the image but it emerges nonetheless..
I wonder how this would work with WRITING ?
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