I remember that we were tasked to engage a writing piece for the school's next LOOP edition and we came up with the idea to work around the sentence: "These are my friends" and structure our individual pieces around this central statement to submit it. I clearly remember being very unmotivated to writing anything down even though the deadline was looming because I did not feel inspired. When I reflect deeper, I think that problem arises in me a lot when I'm doing work. I tend to get distracted or effected emotionally when I'm stressed out with things around me and stop working entirely. It's a very bad habit that I've become aware of since I've started Year 5 and I'm trying very hard to build up discipline in these areas of my life.
When the deadline was due, I remember I was at a church camp and during one of the breaks I was lying on the floor with my email open and trying to pen some ideas down to send to Megan who was chasing us frantically for our pieces. I just typed out a rough idea of my piece before sending it to her because I remember that it was a first draft and that I didn't need for the work to be 'perfect'. I think that is another aspect of myself that I need to start changing. When I reflect deeper I think I get very disheartened when my works aren't produced to the standard of which I want and when I feel that it is a bad work, I loose motivation instead of making my work better.
I think there is an important point to note here, that I need to learn that I don't need to be such a perfectionist when it comes to making creative works and that I shouldn't let my emotions come in the way of my work and that this is applicable to all my areas of study.
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