Make It Exist Before Making It Perfect
Proofreading is one of the most tedious things I think I’ll ever experience in my entire life. I don’t have hours to spend nor do I have the mental capacity to read my own work back without cringing so much I may die.
Like….. who wants to actually do all that work when I could just say whats on my mind and leave it at that? I don’t proofread these posts and I schedule to publish without going back on anything I’ve written. In my mind it makes the most sense for the type of content I’m posting, but even in other areas I know I must first create, then fix.
Things cannot be perfect unless they are able to be fixed, and to be able to be fixed they must exist. Without existence, there is no proof of you ever writing anything or working on your project in the first place. If you’re in the stage where not a single idea is even written down, drawn out, or spoken of, have you even made anything?
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Something this reminds me of is a poor attempt of contemporary / abstract art that has been surfacing more and more recently. Specifically, that one image of a banana being taped to a wall and being called art.
Don’t get me wrong, I do overthink and can give practically anything meaning if you want me to. That banana, which ripens over the days and will turn all brown and moldy if not utilized within the right time, is stuck to the wall with no way out of the sticky bond. It reminds me of myself in some ways if we’re really going to go there, but that is a topic for another day.
My point — which rethinking my choice of words now seems a bit strange — still stands no matter how written; there are people out there making things exist even if you think you can do better. The difference between them and you is that they have actually put their ideas into motion and made mind visuals into something physical that everyone can see.
It took a lot of guts to start this blog (even though the actual decision making process was overall a very quick one) and a few weeks ago it took even more to record my very first YouTube video. it will most likely never see the light of day, but at least I had made it.
If there is anything you take from my small note today, let it be to forget about all of the pressures you or others put to make something perfect, and first let it exist. New ideas sprout all the time through natural courses, and the more you push for them to happen, the less likely they are.
