When i first came across the word "Writer's Block", it was a strange concept and i couldn't visualize how it kept a writer function-less and without his/her creative might to perform the wonders they do with words.
You would appreciate the words of writers when you get to read how tenderly & passionately they put words to print, bringing to life a story that could enliven the universe.
When you read titles authored by Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Leo Tolstoy, Stephen King, J.R.R Tolkien and J.K Rowling to mention but a few, you can't help but marvel at how they do it except you are not literate ofcourse, but each and everyone of them at a point or the other, experienced writer's block.
Its not like they don't know what to write or how to write again, but more of the fact that they cant express themselves or worse put those thoughts to paper.
i would rather call it the inability of the writer to put properly the sequence of their thoughts and bring such words to life in a way that would captivate the reader and keep his interest till the story comes to its conclusion.
On the other hand, is amnesia; which simply means that you forgot about it. it is very different from writer's block.
Finally, is utter laziness; you just don't want to bother about getting it done.
I've been contemplating between the second and last of them; which of them has been tormenting me lately. It is definitely not writer's block, it could be amnesia (my short-term memory is really bad) i could just forget about something or an event and no matter how much am reminded, it wouldn't come back except if there is video evidence obviously. it is really difficult to refute a video footage especially if it has audio to it.
I have toyed slightly with the idea that maybe i was on Auto-Pilot on those phases or Day-sleepwalking but its really not possible to be in that state, get so much done and have no inkling to it all.
If i was in a developed country, i'd be the perfect candidate for a novel experiment on reversing the effect of and curing Alzheimer or i could just commit all the crimes i want to (maybe just one great felony) and simply feign innocence, get a doctor to term me a psych-case which would get me a free "Get out of Jail" card. i may even live the rest of my life in a government facility under the sponsorship of the government at a cost to the taxpayers.
Alas, in my country (just like in Sparta of old) if you are found incapable and unworthy, you are pushed to the edge and thrown off the cliff. it is better to hide your flaws and strife to fit in at whatever cost.
Am not alone in the bid to fit in, the remaining 160 million of my fellow countrymen are doing the same. it can be verified firsthand from the cries of anguish and the strife they go through daily, just to put food in their bellies (gone are the days when the food got to the tables first).
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
The little things are the hardest to begin
Like i said in my first post that procrastination is the killer of dreams, i guess am yet to rid myself of my 'Demons'. i cant entirely state that i now do things on time. i have an application that needs to go in in tomorrow, annoying thing is that it has been up for 2 months or so yet i keep saying tomorrow. just this morning i was able to write down a rough sketch of what i would want my application to look like and hopefully i would get it done and submit it before the deadline. i have noticed i seem to work better under a certain degree of pressure.
Monday, 14 November 2011
Travails of the average commuter
I used to think that it was only in metropolitan cities that traffic jams were as a result of population explosion combined with inadequate planning by the city council, that assumption is still valid so long as we are using near ideal conditions.
The perennial traffic jams or Go-Slow as it is commonly referred to as here has defiled every solution put to it, be it real or ornamental.
I reside in a little known place known as dutse which is somewhere on the outskirts of abuja. ideally, it should take me an average of 30 minutes to get to work but the traffic situation is really worth writing about. if you make it out of that traffic in 2 hours, then, you probably left home by 3am in the morning.
These days its an average of 3 hours to get to work and officially am expected to resume by 8am, you don't need to be a genius to figure out that i ought to leave the house by 5am to come in just in time, hence, i should be awake by 4am or 4:30am (assuming i have done every other thing the night before like; picking out what i would wear, pressing it, picking the shoes & having it polished, as well as any other thing i would need for the next day laid out). unfortunately, am a man which means i don't or rarely do such things.
Anyways, all this i cant manage or train myself to getting done but i still cant shake off the greatest mitigating factor to achieving this set goal of 4am, i just cant wake up anytime before 7am.
Yes i know, but, i've tried severally, that's just how am designed. i seem to need more sleep than the average man.
The consequence is that i get to work very late on a daily basis, we are talking of 10am -ish. i have been verbally reprimanded, which i explained my predicament as stated above. i was advised to alter my sleep pattern (like i am dumb & haven't tried that option).
i was issued a query after a few more days, to which i promptly replied and promised i was going to move closer to the office to forestall future occurrence. i guessed that worked because i wasn't bothered any more.
The truth is, i don't really plan on moving. i can't afford the rent in town, its almost 3times of what is commonly available where i presently reside. sometimes i just wonder how others are doing it. if you use you 7-month pay for house rent, how do you survive on the remaining 5-month pay annually.
Am buying myself time until the reconstruction is over, its almost a year and half since it began but there is 'light at the end of the tunnel' hopefully.
So for now, i would still be waking up by 7am and getting to work by 10am. i know am kinda cheating my fellow colleagues who would have put in 2 hours before i show up and we still get paid the same amount at the end of the month, but hey, who said life was fair. its happy hour for me so let me live it while it lasts.
The perennial traffic jams or Go-Slow as it is commonly referred to as here has defiled every solution put to it, be it real or ornamental.
I reside in a little known place known as dutse which is somewhere on the outskirts of abuja. ideally, it should take me an average of 30 minutes to get to work but the traffic situation is really worth writing about. if you make it out of that traffic in 2 hours, then, you probably left home by 3am in the morning.
These days its an average of 3 hours to get to work and officially am expected to resume by 8am, you don't need to be a genius to figure out that i ought to leave the house by 5am to come in just in time, hence, i should be awake by 4am or 4:30am (assuming i have done every other thing the night before like; picking out what i would wear, pressing it, picking the shoes & having it polished, as well as any other thing i would need for the next day laid out). unfortunately, am a man which means i don't or rarely do such things.
Anyways, all this i cant manage or train myself to getting done but i still cant shake off the greatest mitigating factor to achieving this set goal of 4am, i just cant wake up anytime before 7am.
Yes i know, but, i've tried severally, that's just how am designed. i seem to need more sleep than the average man.
The consequence is that i get to work very late on a daily basis, we are talking of 10am -ish. i have been verbally reprimanded, which i explained my predicament as stated above. i was advised to alter my sleep pattern (like i am dumb & haven't tried that option).
i was issued a query after a few more days, to which i promptly replied and promised i was going to move closer to the office to forestall future occurrence. i guessed that worked because i wasn't bothered any more.
The truth is, i don't really plan on moving. i can't afford the rent in town, its almost 3times of what is commonly available where i presently reside. sometimes i just wonder how others are doing it. if you use you 7-month pay for house rent, how do you survive on the remaining 5-month pay annually.
Am buying myself time until the reconstruction is over, its almost a year and half since it began but there is 'light at the end of the tunnel' hopefully.
So for now, i would still be waking up by 7am and getting to work by 10am. i know am kinda cheating my fellow colleagues who would have put in 2 hours before i show up and we still get paid the same amount at the end of the month, but hey, who said life was fair. its happy hour for me so let me live it while it lasts.
Friday, 11 November 2011
HURRAH!!!!!! Sabertooth!!!!! Hurrah!!!
They say procastination is the thief of time, i have come to observe that it just doesnt do that but also takes away opportunities, compounds problems and eventually makes a pretty bad situation worse than you could ever have imagined.
Why am i talking on this? i realised that two weeks ago or so i decided that Nov 1st would be an awesome day to launch my blog,that should be like 10 days ago, alas, today is the 11th of November 2011 and i just doing it.
i had to wait till it clocked 11.11.11_11:11:11 which is the 11th day of november of the year 2011 AD by 11minutes past the 11th hour of the day and 11 seconds (if we can actually/precisely measure it in-sync globally). it is a very special day and am glad i eventually did it today. i sure can tell you that in as much as procastination is evil, perpertual postponment is way worse. like the saying goes-Beta late than Never Right?!!!.
i am sabertooth and i just wrote my first blog.
signing out y'all.
Why am i talking on this? i realised that two weeks ago or so i decided that Nov 1st would be an awesome day to launch my blog,that should be like 10 days ago, alas, today is the 11th of November 2011 and i just doing it.
i had to wait till it clocked 11.11.11_11:11:11 which is the 11th day of november of the year 2011 AD by 11minutes past the 11th hour of the day and 11 seconds (if we can actually/precisely measure it in-sync globally). it is a very special day and am glad i eventually did it today. i sure can tell you that in as much as procastination is evil, perpertual postponment is way worse. like the saying goes-Beta late than Never Right?!!!.
i am sabertooth and i just wrote my first blog.
signing out y'all.
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