A Blank Canvas

Well hello there...you! How are you doing? Well that is very interesting that you feel that way. Why? I don't know...

Remember how I told you little over a month ago (I think) that I might write some stories? Well I decided I would do that today! Yes, I am going to ignore that strange greeting and just continue with my thoughts. Throughout my life I have had many story ideas go through my head and then either I think about it for a bit never write it down and forget about it, write it down realize I suck at writing and forget my whole plan for it, or I start writing it and it ends up being a super short story that is ridiculous and random and has no real purpose except to entertain me because I was bored.

Well I have had this idea about doing a story about a person who is a prisoner...sort of. I really don't know how to explain it but I will try again. It's about this girl that used to work for a secret spy agency type thing and then got caught by a certain fellow and now lives in his basement so that he can threaten her to make other people from the same spy agency to do what he wants. At least that was the original idea I think. Now I don't know what it is.

Wow. Sorry that was a much longer explanation than I wanted it to be but just a bit more. I had this idea as I was trying to sleep and I decided that I should write it down so I don't completely forget it. Um. If you like it let me know...if you hate it let me know. Give me your thoughts. If you want more of these let me know. Okay yeah so here is the scene in my head (forgive me I'm not a writing person so yeah...).

Attempt at Inspiration?

Most the time my points are pretty silly and just here to hopefully entertain but today I'm going to try and be inspirational/motivating. I kinda doubt those are the right words that describe it but I wanted to talk about it anyway and I think it's kinda inspirational/motivating...then again I'm biased. Anyway here we go!

This is James Maslow...I want his puppy

So I was watching the last three weeks of Dancing with the Stars when it was on mainly because James Maslow was on it...and because for some reason I became obsessed with dancing and yeah. Anyway James got 4th (he should have gotten 3rd in my opinion but whatever) and when that happened I immediately thought how I would feel about it. Through my thought process I immediately hoped that if I were on the show I would do my best but not care if I won or not. Weird reasoning, yes, but here's why: It's all about the journey. I'm sure you've heard the saying "It's about the journey, not the destination" or something like that (for some reason my I'm having a major brain fart and can't remember what exactly it was but that's close enough). Well I decided that the destination is what motivates you and the journey is what you remember.

We will use Dancing with the Stars as an example. What motivates each contestant is winning the mirror ball that's where they want to end up, their destination they want to reach. The journey is all the weeks they fought to stay in the contest. All of those dances, the reactions, the hard work, that's what they are going to remember. Even if they didn't make it to the finals or even the 5th week, they are going to remember what they learned and the excitement, pain, and everything else they experienced. To me that is so much better.

If you don't get to a certain destination or goal that you were really fighting for don't give up. Look back on everything you went through and experienced on your journey. I'm sure there is something there that will make it worth it even if you didn't make it to the end destination. Did you learn something? Did you meet someone new? Did you do something you never would have done?

Well there you go. That's my attempt at being inspirational/motivating. It sounded a lot cooler in my head (which happens way too often for my own good). I hope you enjoyed it. Stay classy and remember the journey not the fact that you didn't reach your destination.