Memorial Day weekend, days off from work, overindulgence of all things good and sinful. Now back to the drawing, writing, and fervent daydreams about worlds that yet exist.
I’ve always been a big believer in buckling down and getting things done, efficient like. If you want something done, well then all you have to do is get your shit together and get it done… or in other words: Shut up and get to.
It’s all good and awesome sounding, until I realize that I’m good at everything leading up to the part of DOING it. I’ve hired the crew, loaded the ship, and have plotted the course. Yet my vessel sits at dock, the crew idling away their time at gambling and drinking, and calendar pages blossoming little ‘x’ marks over days come and gone.
I often wonder what’s the cause for the lack of DOING. Laziness, fear, good old American procrastination? Currently, it’s all a mystery locked up in a strong box within a bank vault. I could get to the heart of the problem, if I employed dynamite and a crew of cutthroat thieves, but alas, that requires effort on my part. And I’m just an effortless kind of guy.
Motivation is always something that’s difficult to come by. There are few folk out there that can say that they did it all without someone egging them on or without some looming distant thing that gave them that ball tingling fear to push them forward. And that’s where feedback comes into play.
There are a lot of things I read online that make me go “Oh, man. That was fucking awesome.” yet, I seem to never take the time to say: “Oh, man. That was fucking awesome.” to the person who created the thing. I participate in a few forums, I read several blogs, and I also subscribe to several different webcomics and online story sites.
They are thought provoking, they are interesting, and they make me say: “oh, man. That was fucking awesome.” But I’m still horrible at actually saying those words to the people who made those awesome things. I’ve decided I need to rectify that.
Motivation isn’t a one-way street and y’know a little bit of feedback from folk does go a long way in keeping that motivation at acceptable levels. I suppose it’s different than seeing those numbers on your stats page showing how many people have come by and seeing a sentence tossed up saying nothing more than “good job”, it makes things a bit more real. Not just numbers now, but words, even though those words a tad generic and there’s no face behind it. Still good stuff, IMO.
And as the tracks of Bitter Ruin’s album “Hung, Drawn, and Quartered” snake their way through my noggin and the awesome three day weekend come to a close it’s time to reset and restart.
The two days of lying in a gluttonous haze of booze and meat are over. Now, we get back to work, energized and organized. The ship will leave the dock once more and maybe this little captain will find a new world across the vastness of the uncharted seas? Maybe I’ll get swallowed up by sea dragons, dashed against the rocks by sirens, or fall off the edge of the world.
The adventure begins and motivation currently is revving up…
Here’s a little pic I made from the hours and hours of listening to the Bitter Ruin album.
