Quintessential Mutterings In The Sonosphere

It’s always difficult to begin something new. There is never a set guide to follow where everything falls into place perfectly and instant success is guaranteed, because inevitably, there will be obstacles, may it be a task that you just can’t wrap your head around despite having all the instructions in front of you to complete it. Just that one stumbling block will lead to self-doubt about your own ability and make you believe that maybe this task is impossible, and you are being tricked by others who just want to waste your time trying to complete this impossible task. You may have this belief where you will want to prove them all wrong and you will, despite all the persecutions into your character and the blockages they try to put in your way, work your arse off and dedicate so much of your time to get the approval you need and the approval you believe you deserve for your work. This is until you realise that these people are never going to be impressed with you because they are in it for themselves, and you need to work towards completing tasks that will benefit your livelihood and not theirs. That is, of course, one scenario you could find yourself in; not everyone is malicious and callous. Just those individuals who want to bring people down to their low, petty level because they want to be the success story and will take the stories of others just to get close to completing their manufactured one. Those individuals will always have their comeuppance as the plot holes appear and every element of the story collapses, and they end up with no story to tell at all. They will never complete every task and have regret.

Maybe you might be surrounded by genuine people who, like you, have always had this impossible task and can never find the answer to it. They’ve come close to it before by working together, spending years in each other’s company and enjoying some brilliant times together that they won’t forget in a hurry. However, once they believe they have the answer, something wrong happens, whether it’s an accident or something just comes up, and the answer seems further away than ever before. People move on to try and complete different tasks with the hope that this will lead to the answer they want, but will always look back at that previous task and treasure some of the moments they had and never forget one single bit of it, because they were some of the best days of their lives.

We all want answers; I’m one of those annoying people would go on a film’s Wikipedia page and find out the ending to the film ten minutes into watching the film. I understand that in the eyes of some, it may seem like a cardinal sin, but I don’t do it for every movie, just the ones that aren’t biopics. It’s not because I want to spoil the films for others; I will always keep the information to myself. The reason why I do this is just to get an understanding of where the story is going. If it is going somewhere that is just mundane and generic, like for instance, the will they, won’t they characters getting together, which happens in every film where romance is a main part of the plot or a fight sequence where the hero beats the villain in combat and everything is dandy and rosy in the end, that does not appeal to me. If the romance was platonic or unrequited, or the hero has to face consequences and leaves the story changed from how they entered it, then that, to me, is more appealing because that adds character and depth, which most mainstream films nowadays don’t have. Those films are catered to an audience who just want to escape their tasks that day and enter a world where they don’t have to think about them. Is that necessarily a bad thing? Not in the slightest. As long as we have a route to escapism, we have freedom.

So this blog is my route to escapism, the purpose being to motivate me to write on a regular basis, which has always been something I have been rather bad at. On this blog, I will be posting twice weekly. On Tuesdays, I will be posting my thoughts and opinions on different topics and as well some of my previous experiences to the topic in question It won’t be politically charged or going out to attack people who don’t deserve it, or filled with crazy conspiracy theories about how migrants are causing everyone to get dysentery and lower sperm counts. This isn’t X. On Sundays, I will be releasing chapters of a fantasy crime drama that I have been working on for the last year, but have not had the motivation to complete due to personal tasks I have had to deal with which, one day I will be more open about, but today is not that day. Those tasks have many steps to get over before they can be completed.

To finish this blog, I will go back to the first statement I made: it’s always difficult to begin something new. It is, no doubt in my mind, however, by taking that first brave step into your new task, you have completed the hardest step; the entry into the unknown. From this point, every step becomes easier as you feel more open and more confident in where you want to go and can plan out how you are going to get there. There will be stumbles and rocky periods and times when you feel that everything is going against you. But if this is the task you want to complete, if this is your ambition and one true desire in life, what you have always wanted, you will do it. I know you will, and the people around you who love you believe in you.