Man, I have such wonderful ideas and thoughts!

Hmmmmmm, --- wonder if I'll ever be able to get them out???

Sometimes I think it's time that I lack in --- other times, it's motivation.  You know, the want to - I actually give a crap mentality.  So I just sit around and waste my God-given talent(s) like a bloody bump on a log.  But then again, I suppose the bump on the log is utilizing its God-given talents because that's what it's supposed to be --- a bump on a log.  KWIM? J

I guess my problem with writing sometimes, or all too often, is like my problems with many other things in my life --- FEAR!  Fear of failing, I suppose, or fear of being critiqued.  Then again, that's what life is like no matter what you do.  Odds are sooner or later, you're going to run into someone who for some reason just hates your guts.  But for the one person who hates your guts, you've got to believe that God will give you 5-10 people who absolutely think you're the greatest!

And as for fear of failing,  if a person doesn't try, then they automatically fail just because they didn't even try.  What's the sense it that really? It's so much better to try and fail, then to never try and never know if you could've succeeded at something.

My husband for the longest time has been trying to encourage me to do something with my writing gifts, as well as other people that I've known along the way.  I've been told it is a true waste of a great gift and a thought came to my head, --- "What if so many of our histories greatest minds had not tried to do something, then where would the world be today?"  What if Edison decided not to invent things like the light bulb because he was afraid to fail?  What if members of The Beatles had not pursued their musical dreams, would the music world have been the same?  There have been so many great and brilliant minds in history that took a chance to achieve their dreams when they could've just as easily not done anything at all, but then again, what good would that have done for them and possibly other people as well?  Think about it.

So, --- I guess the moral to this story is that you'll never know unless you try, and I will never know unless I try.  Simple as that! J