For this post I thought I’d talk a bit about what I have learned this past year from doing this blog. At the beginning, I really thought that creative writing, particularly poetry could become a passion of mine. Writing poems was something that I started doing very casually about a year ago as a means of getting over being in a depressed mood or any issues that I might have been having at the time. As this year went by though, I found myself needing to write less and less. Some of the blog posts would just feel forced and some of the material was not as genuine as I hoped it would be.
For me, my high school opinions/problems were much more conducive to writing poetry than my college problems. In high school, I was much more emotional and brooding than I am now. I would sit and think about love and the meaning of life, but now all my time is taken up by intense work and intense relaxation; There’s really not much middle ground between the two. My mind is preoccupied with more concrete things now that do not yield for very poetic material. I would probably have quite a hard time writing a heartfelt poem about economic theory or the dental formulas of primates, but that’s just me.
So in the end, maybe I’ll return to being a passionate writer one day, but for now my focus is in the real world (not the metaphorical one). It makes me kind of sad that my creative side is either hibernating or dead, but also happy at the same time. With thoughts directed towards more productive things like work, I find myself much more inclined to succeed than in the past. I guess at some point we all have to grow up and focus on the real world sometimes. Thanks for reading this year!