Creators vs Consumers
Choosing to be a writer at times feels akin to watching your pal Sisyphus attempting to roll his boulder up the mountain. You see him fail several times and instead of shaking your head and leaving, you pat him on his much-more-muscular-than-yours back and willingly trade places with him. You struggle with rolling the proverbial writer’s boulder because it’s what you do – your “being” as I mentioned in a previous post.
You Have a Job. Do It.
I’d been injured playing basketball before. Beyond the little fingernail scrapes and bruises, I had just gotten back from a rib injury. Even now, my big toe is black from bruising. Basketball is a contact sport and I’m no spring chicken anymore. I took a deep breath and asked him the question I’d been so worried to ask. It’d been churning in my mind for a week, “should I quit basketball if I keep getting injured?”