It’s been getting progressively harder and harder for me to write these blog posts. I just feel like I’m completely out of things to write about. The last two were just awful reviews of random things that I like. It’s hard to come up with something interesting to talk about when everything feels so repetitive and uninteresting.
I wake up, go to school, come home and work, then I go to sleep. Every day I do the same thing with slight variations. Of course, I could try harder to find things to write about but I just feel so uninspired.
For me, creativity and inspiration come more in waves than in steady streams. I’ll suddenly have a really cool good idea or burst of creative energy and if I don’t act on it, it just completely goes away. It helps to record the ideas I have so I can come back to them the next time I actually feel motivated.
I can also kind of bring out little bits of creativity by force. Music helps draw it out a lot, good lyrics can be really inspiring for me. Songs that have a lot of meaning are a great way to drive my creativity. Also just looking at aesthetic pictures on Instagram or even Google can really help. If something really strikes me as beautiful or even just well-presented it can bring on a lot of ideas for art or writing or just motivation in general.
The times I find that I’m really at a loss are when I need it most. School projects feel so meaningless that I can’t find it in myself to feel actually motivated or inspired to put in all my effort. It's not that they aren't important to me, of course, I care about my grades and the quality of my work. It can just feel really hard to be seriously motivated right now.
Sorry if this is a lot for a blog post!
How do you deal with a lack of inspiration?
I've also been feeling this :(
ReplyDeleteI feel like I also have nothing to write about drowning in quarantine. What is there to really talk about? Maybe we're just stupid bored. Maybe you need to call me and we can be dumb for a few hours just to change it up. The most exciting thing going on for me lately is ice cream and cats, so this article hit me hard. (Also school is hard this year :( mental health during pandemic + academics might not be the best mix....)
I also feel so... bored. I don't even know just the routine the whole world is in right now is so bland and I wish I could change it up even for a little.
ReplyDeleteI hate the new routine that involves so much screen time. I think it is changing how we think and how motivated/unmotivated we are... It's not natural! I think the best thing for me is taking breaks, and sometimes taking long breaks over the course of a few days where I won't do any extra work/home work at all.
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