When Words Don’t Come
Today, I sat down to write and felt completely stuck. My mind was racing, yet nothing clear came to the surface. I don’t plan my writing in advance—I let my emotions guide me, only looking back at what I’ve written when it’s done. But today, it was different. No matter how hard I tried, the words weren’t there. It was as if, for reasons I couldn’t explain, I had lost my connection to the source. And what came next was silence.
But the silence didn’t come immediately. At first, my mind was full—thoughts moving a mile a minute, like waves in an ocean during a storm. The mind is an ocean of endless potential, full of ideas and knowledge, but when the waves are too strong, it’s easy to lose sight of anything meaningful. I find that when we obsess over what causes this mental turbulence, we create more chaos. But how do you calm the storm?
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