When I was young, I used to sketch and doodle everywhere and this continued all the way through university. I spent more ink drawing in the margins than I ever did on taking notes. This has largely been lost however as writing with a pen has been replaced largely by keyboards which I think is somewhat of a shame for many people who will likely never experience the creativity of doodling.
For me though, the concept lives on although it is rare that I pick up a sketchbook. These days it is writing and now, writing for Steemit. But the writing itself has gone beyond doodling and is my own kind of art, my own expressions of the mind that traverse the distance from within to the external.
I write a lot. I likely write much too much for people to be able to read them all and I think that this has a detrimental effect on how people view my blog as they may see it as too easy. It is not that at all, I am just committed and serious about my mental doodling and if I do not get it down, it is likely to be lost.
If I was fortunate enough to attract big voters consistently or their automated bots and my rewards were sufficiently high, I would likely still post just as often but would decline payout on many of my posts or use the gains to heavily support manual curators to spread my good fortune.
And there is luck involved to some degree no matter how high a poster's content quality or how well they try to engage. Getting the consistent support of a significant patron is difficult and if I was in the position to do so, I would find a few content providers who consistently produce good content and give them a vote a day on a piece of their work.
I do not know if this is possible to code into a bot where only one vote goes to an author even if they produce 5 posts. I don't have to worry about this though as I am not in the position to be a significant patron yet.
How I see it, to get the luck of a patron voter one must still be prepared and the consistency of content is part of the preparation. There are many people posting content aiming for reward yet their content is not theirs. I do not just mean that it is stolen from Youtube or some other off platform site, I mean that it does not come from them. There is no heart.
The word inspiration means 'the immediate influence of a god' and inspire means to breathe life into something, make it move. I do not believe in a god as many may, but I do believe in inspiration. Inspiration in regards to the individual is the external influence that connects inside and motivates 'stimulus for action' and drives a person to create. This breath inflames the heart and gives reason to act.
The more I write, the more I am inspired as my mind grows in sensitivity and environmental awareness and I see ever more beauty in the world in which I live. I say I and not we for we all live in different worlds as dictated by our filters. I feel that as I write I am starting to either remove filters or compensate for them and as such, see the world with increasing clarity.
I do not really expect anyone else to understand this but I am sure there are many out there who experience similar. It may not be through writing, it may be through their painting, music or maths but, the exploration of their world will likely reveal the repetition of it within themselves. Their connection to the environment in which they operate.
Nature has the tendency to fractal like the trunk of a tree that turns into the branches, the leaves, the veins of each leaf. I see that our own lives follow similar patterns and how we approach life fractals into all aspects of it.
For me, I want to live an inspired life where rather than an automatic pilot dictating my movements, an examined life is influenced by the surroundings so that there is a concentric spiral of inspiration, motivation and sensitivity that expands outward and upward to see and experience deeper.
This may not be possible at all. I do find however that so far, it is as the more I explore, the more I understand and in that position, I have the ability to explore further.
For me currently, writing is what affords me this opportunity and I hope that sharing my experiences, others will also invest more heavily into their own experience and connection to their world. Again, if I had the chance, if I was a millionaire, billionaire, whale or anyone with significant means, the vast majority of my wealth would be to support others on their journey in whatever ways I could.
But, for now, I will continue exploring and being inspired to write, post and perhaps a word or two will fall in to the eye-line of someone who needs it at the time. Perhaps I will get lucky one day and find a way that I can do more than offer simple words.
Taraz
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