RESETTING MY CREATIVITY BY ELIZA WATERS

I have been in a state of semi-quarantines for exactly 208 days as of October 11. That’s a lot of days. As a person who doesn’t leave her room all that often anyway, I really did not think this would be that big of a deal when this pandemic began. But boy, was I wrong. 

All sorts of things have happened during this year, but perhaps worst for me has been the decline in my creativity. Assignments that would have once been easy, fast, and fun for me have been terribly delayed and procrastinated. A week ago, I decided this had to end. I had to find my passion for creativity once again, and the best way to do that was to reset. 

I hopped on a plane home and gave myself an entire day off. I played with my pets, I saw my favorite people, I slept. Then, I spent two days working as hard as I possibly could on all the assignments I had turned away from in the past few weeks. And wow. My creativity feels back and strong. I feel like myself again. 

Sometimes, we just have to reset ourselves. People aren’t made to go go go or stop and not move for days on end. We just need some time off to be ourselves and do what we need to do.