sensitive subject

what are your thoughts about euthanasia?

Yet another opportunity to pick a side.

If you’ve caught on to this endeavour, you’ll realize it’s been a few days since I last posted a short piece of writing. Without rushing through another inevitable unit of time, this project has rejuvenated my appetite and need for goal setting.

I’ve evaded this prompt for too long now. Enough time has elapsed that I now sit, frustrated, and try to reintroduce myself to the actual objective of this exercise.

Write everyday.

The thing with art and creativity is, you can’t live in a world all-consumed by your art. It softens your heart and hands. At some point, through whatever activity or channel, you have to live your life. Be a person. Art can be a creative outlet, or even your livelihood, but when all is said and done, you have to be present in other facets.

Some days you love your craft, and some days you don’t. The task at hand is really to accept that hating your art is totally okay. Lately, I have run into a string of days where I haven’t really liked the sentences that have fallen together. They’ve felt cliche, tired, impractical, too complicated, to perfect, and everything in between. Thus, I have really hated the writing.

But then, there’s the objective. I should be forcing a piece out of my fingers. There is a daily deadline after all. That way, as I reflect on each piece and how it came to fruition, I can critique my response to roadblocks. You will see, in the last 20 to 30 posts, an interesting trajectory between when I was addicted to writing and stringing together concise sentences with ease and when I couldn’t muster the energy to do any of that and wrote furiously without a filter (case in point: today).

With the title of this prompt in mind, I’m really not sure I have an answer. Our neighbours to the south have been involved in politically ridiculous partisanship throughout the course of the current campaign. I think that’s enough for one autumn’s worth of discussion.

Will discuss at another time.

To be continued…