-Star* of Taliesin
Every day upon awaking in front of us lies a new day. That day's as empty as a white sheet of paper; it has nothing written on it, it is clean. How we fill this blank sheet, what we write, draw or paste on to it, is up to us.
Some days it is easy to fill the page. It seems as if the page fills itself; we don't even have to try and write; words, deeds and thoughts come all by themselves and happily put themselves on the blank sheet. Nothing goes wrong, nobody gets hurt, everybody we meet feels better for meeting us, every word we say is the right word at the right time and place.
Days like that leave us with snapshots of Sunshine, smiling eyes and a sense of accomplishment. These are "The days of wonder".
On the other hand however, we are confronted with days when despite our efforts, despite the best laid plans, we cannot get one simple phrase or word right on paper. We could call it a "Writer's-block of living". We try, we keep putting pencil to paper with the words already formed in our minds, yet the pencil seems to start living a life of its own and the words written are in no way, shape, or content what we intended them to be.
Where it is easy to start anew while writing on paper, its impossible to restart a day.
So what do we do? Do we continue to write, although we feel that we will pile mistake on mistake? Stick our head in the sand or go back to bed and stay there tll the day turned into night? Maybe not such a bad idea, but highly impractical! No, we have to find a better way of dealing with our "writer's-block".
As a rule I would suggest to try to minimize the "damage" we do by being more quiet, more still. Let's face it, words we don't say cannot wound. Another tip would be to go about our business (whether that be at work or in the family environment) as usual and if at all possible go about it quietly and calmly. If we can avoid it at all, we should not start something new on a day like this. Let's face it, new ventures (big or small) ask more of us at the best of times.
The most important of all however is this: rely on friends. Be honest with them, tell them you have an "off-day" and ask them for understanding.
The beauty of friendship is that it understands almost everything and forgives all. So even if we go wrong (and we agree we should try to avoid that) true friends will give us another chance.
As "One for the road" we should remember that maybe tomorrow, maybe next week our friends will have a bad case of "writer's-block" and may be in need of some understanding.
Star*
