It's about time

Write a blog! It’s about time!

Write a blog! It’s about time!

That would be a great introduction to a blog about time. This blog is not about time.

Rather, what better time to write a blog? 20-something, just finished uni, starting a new chapter in life and self-discovery…now is the time you write a blog.

-       Ok, now we’ve got that sorted, what do I write about?

-       Well, I’d have to reciprocate that question on your scrummy backside, and ask, why the hell not?

I think creativity is a problem. There is no lack of creativity; in fact, there is certainly abundance. However, how often does that creativity lead to productivity that can bring benefit to society? How often are the Arts and Sciences combined to bring us masterpieces that we can change the world with? Without innovation in art and technology, do nations ever reap the fruits of economic growth?

Well, what started as my one rhetorical question for emphasis quickly turned into a self-indulgent tricolon. I don’t claim to have the answers though, so if nations have thrived before on innovations outside Art and Science, please do correct me.

We started talking about creativity: - that was going well; let’s continue with that. Steve Jobs talked about not doing as much philanthropic work as people like Gates, because he believed that far more benefit can come to society when your main aims and focuses seek to benefit society in themselves. Rather than making money through an unhealthy means, he believes that real change comes when people’s livings are earned off their passions for changing the world.

My two cents (worth even less in British currency) are that you can never really do too much, but I sure as hell respect Gates and Jobs.

Back to my original point, it might seem that we are in a period of scientific rationalism and technological innovation. In the last 100 years, we have seen shifts from radio to television, theatre screens to personal projectors, bricks to smart phones, computers and Internet. It seems like centuries ago that your mum had to get off the phone before you wanted to use the Internet. The idea of waiting a minute for a webpage to load brings tears of anguish to many eyes these days. But how much creativity in this world has been left untapped?

A friend of mine is a mobile app designer. Whenever he tells someone of his profession, he gets showered with ‘I got a great idea for an app, cus’ ‘. How many of us have thought of ‘great ideas for a movie’ or thought to themselves ‘I should write that all in a book’. This is all creativity! People are constantly thinking, using their imaginations, but due to a number of things ranging from social circumstance, social pressure, self esteem, laziness; these ideas stay with us and die with us.

-       Thanks for that, cus. Geez, you might ‘swell end there, nothing like inspiring by ending on a note of death

-        …who even says ‘cus’ anymore?

I could turn this into a rant about how society and ‘the system’ (just to clarify, the system does not refer to illuminati or Zionists) is sucking away at our creativity, and turning us into shinier cogs to place into their machine of conformity. But I won’t. We are no longer children, where our creativity would lead to drawings, or stories, or even large amounts of time with action figures/dolls just being able to play out large scale scenarios in our heads

Instead, I will end on a serious note; a note of death. Just kidding.

-       That wasn’t funny.

-       …tough crowd

I want to write this blog…because I want to write. I feel I procrastinate. I feel I have ideas, great ideas. I feel that slowly these ideas are getting wasted. I feel that most of my time in front of my computer screen is not helping my creativity. I feel that I read and write far less than I used to, and I don’t know why that is. I feel that no one will read this blog, but many blogs are not necessarily for the reader’s benefit. I feel my writing is self-indulgent. I feel that writing anything whatsoever gets my brain going in a way that it rarely goes anymore. I feel that this is a start; this is a way in for me. I feel good that I have shared my thoughts. I feel I never understood why people wrote blogs, but now I realize it is about time.  (I will ensure my next blog is about time)

It’s about time I wrote a blog.