Losing Inspiration in a Pandemic
Isolation tends to be isolating
I never wanted to be the person to say this, but you will probably lose inspiration if things aren’t going too well around you. At least, that’s true in my case. I wasn’t ready for the virus and all the changes it has brought to my life. Everything has completely flipped on its head, and I’m still trying desperately to mend the pieces. Right now, I have to move and even figure out how that’s going to work with the new job I’m trying to start. I can’t get unemployment, so I’ve been trying to get a work from home job that can sustain us. All the stress of paying bills with savings that are now becoming none existent is getting to me. It does not help that there’s no clear end to all this. They say that this is the perfect time to reinvent yourself and spend more time doing activities you usually wouldn’t have time for. For some reason, as quarantine gets longer, that task becomes more problematic than it sounds. I went from writing on medium every day, if not, twice a day to not at all. I’m not particularly eager to publish things that feel forced, and everything I tried to write seemed that way. The things I do to try to stay inspired are pretty dull and honestly doesn't help.
Read: I read one page of a book today to try to get me going with this new novel I started. I read three paragraphs and shut the book! I also try to engage and read other articles on medium to draw inspiration for my work. Read books from your favorite genre or even outside your comfort zone. You need to exercise your mind and keep the gears turning.
Write: As I mentioned, I recently just started a new novel. I love the plot, but I can only write maybe one or two pages before I don’t touch it for another two days. Stephan King once said that you should write a certain amount of words every day to improve your writing.
Exercise: I exercised once, and since then, I’ve had the ‘pig out’ of the century. I plan on exercising more, but it’s hard to do when I’m so focused on fixing other things. In conclusion, none of those have been working for me. The things that usually make me feel better are not working anymore because the world is no longer the same.
The truth is, I believe that I am putting too much pressure on myself to come out of this pandemic better than I went into it, which is so unrealistic! Before the epidemic, I was thriving at my job. I didn't have a worry in the world about money or bills. I was apartment hunting a bit outside of the budget and furniture shopping that way as well. The things that I worried about were so minuscule. I can’t come out of this quarantine better than I came in because I was at one of my highest, and the world was a different place. I am putting excessive pressure on myself to step up, and that’s not okay. It’s okay to feel the effects of the world right now. There’s nothing wrong with that. Inspiration may not be there but do it anyway. That productive feeling from getting at least a little work done could be the feeling you need to get you through the day. We are not okay, and that is okay!
"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." -Francis of Assisi
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