How our inspiration is like driving.

I think our inspiration is like driving. Where we go and what we see in our trips to and from one subject to another is all based on our enviornments.
How inspired are you at work? When you're sitting in an small office, grey walls and nothing to look at but a glowing computer screen. You see nothing that brings an interesting thought to your mind. The enviornment is so bland. How can people work in such places? Your brain desperatly searches out any distraction like a breath of air. In such a place, it is as if your thought process is stuck in bumper to bumper traffic. You would exit, but you can't. At least not until rush hour is over. You get to the point where all you want to do is climb through the sunroof of your mind car (mine happens to be a maroon Ford F350 4x4 Crewcab King Ranch Dually) and scream "WHEN IS THIS GOING TO END? WHEN CAN I FINALLY FUFILL MY SIMPLE DREAMS? THAT'S ALL I'M ASKING FOR!". But, if you did that, you would probably be sent to a mental ward, because remember, you're really in an office, not on an actual highway, and screaming in the office is not what a mentally stable person would do.

Or maybe, maybe you don't work at such a terrible place. Maybe you're on a scenic winding road, it's empty, and you can go as fast as you want. Thats when you furiously expell every great idea thats locked away in your mind. Then a cop pulls you over (or in real life terms, your mom tells you to come downstairs and take care of your laundry) or other cars get on the road so you have to slow down (distractions, or being somewhere you cannot expell such pent up inspiration).

Sometimes, when you're on an ugly road, or stuck in traffic, there are ways you can channel your inner creativity, such as turning on your stereo (physically and metephorically), sing (We all know you can't sing in real life, so this just applies to the metephorical road map of your mind), dance in the car of your mind (or dance in real life), and more things. To many that I am willing to list. One of the best ways to channel your inner creative cat is by writing things down. Writing EVERYTHING down. This blog post is an example. I was piddling away my day at work (I watch three kids), a place in which all of my motivation and inspiration pack up and desert my mind, when I thought of this compairison. And being desperatly in want of some sort of accomplishment for the day, I began writing all the ways my mind was like a road map of procrastination, and the occational scenic rout.

I guess my last bit of advice is to find the beauty in every situation, because even in a mentaly distructive tiny grey office, there is some sort of beauty. Just find it, inturperate it, or if you're that good, make it up. And write down everything you can think of. Your mind is a lot more interesting than you may think.