My Imagination can be a joyful thing, or a roadblock!

I can relate to the dog portrayed (above) in Murray Ball’s insightful & humorous ‘Footrot Flats’ comic strip a lot, even the bit where he’s annoyed the bigger dog doesn’t imagine the worst case scenario like he can (lucky bloke!)

To be honest, my imagination has the ability to amplify the BAD side so well that it scares me out of doing what I (now) naively imagined was a good idea! It’s not just my creative ideas it affects either, it can include saying hello to a stranger – I imagine they’ll think I’m weird, so I don’t smile. Sigh. Before anything has actually happened, my imagination can talk me out of it.

Or talk me into it! It can make something seem soooooo wonderful, yet once it has me hooked, it promptly leaves me alone to figure out how to make it, occasionally popping back to visit briefly with an unexpected surprise, which amplifies some GREAT little thing, at which point I usually wonder why the heck I didn’t start sooner!!!

Bonkers isn’t it? The way it can swing in either direction with equal efficiency.

When it doesn’t work out, I can feel like I’m grieving for an imaginary thing I’ve lost (yes, I do think that’s crazy!). And when it does work out, I can feel so full of joyful energy that I can’t help dancing around the room like a loon :o)

Sometimes it’s a long hard slog, & sometimes it’s so easy it actually scares me!

I’m slowly getting used to it, consistently showing up everyday, usually wondering what the bleep I think I’m doing, & just doing it anyway!

Yep, a creative life is an amplified life…… & I wouldn’t have this bonkers experience any other way :o)

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Vicky xxx

Check out more about the Footrot Flats here:

https://www.footrotflats.com/about-footrot-flats

And more about the dog here:

https://www.footrotflats.com/the-characters?character=dog

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