My Own Inspiration

            Have you ever stepped outside the box? The box we have been confined to for centuries. The box that contains the gross Christmas fruitcake grandma sent from Arkansas. The box that has kept us safe, and comfortable. Now, what were to happen if that box were to one day disappear? If we were to erase the lines that held us in, if we were to calculate the perimeter rather than the area, because thanks to all those years in math class that is the one useful thing we learned. (Yeah right). Brilliant mind, Thomas Edison, discovered a thousand ways how not to create a light bulb, but he only needed one way that worked. It seems that today we have found a thousand ways how not to run a country, a thousand ways how not to make people content with their lives, a thousand ways how not to build upon what we have worked so hard to achieve. But we only need one way that will work. One idea of all ideas to set the world in motion again, just one. All we need is a little inspiration. But that is what seems to be lacking. After scrapping 3 attempts at a blog post I feel that there is little to inspire me. On the surface, this assignment didn’t seem difficult; except for the fact it’s taken me two days and a lot of crumpled pieces of paper to decide what to write. Some might say that I lack decision making skills, but I feel that this is more a lack of inspiration and motivation. I’ve figured out that after sitting around and waiting for the inspiration train to hit me with a rush of ideas, I’ve gained nothing but more frustration. Why is it that we spend hours waiting for something to inspire us, waiting to come across just the right combination of words to set off millions of new ideas? What if, instead of waiting for that right moment, we create that moment? We create our own inspiration. Now, maybe this has moved from seemingly indecisive to impatient, but what’s wrong with taking risks and seizing new opportunities? Life is something that only happens once, and we have limited time to take advantage of what’s before us. So how hard could it possibly be to turn over a new chapter and begin a life lived to the absolute fullest? It’s time to say, ‘What the heck!?’ and carpe diem.