I spent 5 minutes outside watching the dog in the yard late at night a few moments ago.
In the distance I heard wild coyotes. I never heard coyotes in the wild until 4 months ago. Pretty neat.
Even better? I had an experience with Bigfoot a few months ago. This massive, hulking, highly intelligent humanoid is not officially recognized by science but tens of thousands of credible people have shared their experiences across the United States and Canada. My experience involved hearing a gorilla-like grunt in a forest with no human beings for 3-5 miles around us, in a highly remote forest in New York State that is 1/5 the size of England, or 1/24th the size of Madagascar. This forest is huge! Few human beings live there. Wood knocks ensued roughly 30 yards away from me and my wife. She heard the grunt; the sound seemed to be identical to a grunt made by a 500 pound Silverback gorilla.
The wood knocks sounded like bodybuilders slamming heavy pine trees with baseball bats. Bigfoot communicates with this tree-knocking technique.
I can never go back to not having coyote or Bigfoot experiences because I HAD each experience. I grew into each experience. I can never turn back. I can never NOT have experiences with wild coyotes. I can never NOT have an experience with Bigfoot. I grew. I cannot possibly turn back because once you grow you have moved forward forever.
Writing is similar. Blogging is similar. Growing as a writer or blogger means you can never turn back. In 2008 I could only write 300 words before writer’s block set in. But after growing into a blogger who can write 10,000 words or more daily, I cannot go back to being the guy who writes 300 words before slamming into writer’s block. Nope; I write and publish 3 guest posts daily and 1 blog post daily because I grew into the blogger – and writer – who churns out words with less and less effort.
Imagine if I tried to go back? I would be depressed. Imagine having talent to write 10,000 words daily but wasting it, throwing it away, NOT writing and publishing a hefty amount of blog posts every single day? One American movie boasted a classic line: there’s nothing worse than wasted talent. The man uttering these words spoke the truth. Nothing feels more depressing, deflating and demoralizing than wasting your precious talents, your serious skills and your unlimited potential.
I recall working as a security guard for 4 years. I knew I was in the perfect place at the perfect time on one level, but doing simple things well inside of my comfort zone every single day began to severely depress me. I felt as if I was wasting my life after a bit. I met a truck driver once who attended MIT. MIT is basically a college for geniuses, being perhaps the most prestigious engineering university on earth. He became so afraid, downtrodden, depressed and hopeless that he traded away his genius, skills, experience and knowledge to do something perfectly inside of his comfort zone.
If the man had been happy, free and at peace driving trucks, I would have commended him. But he was depressed, upset and flat out lost in life, unhappy about driving trucks because he had grown into an MIT graduate then sprinted back, clinging to a life he had long outgrown.
I got the hint; a few months later I got fired and never looked back to being a security guard. My pro blogging career began a few months later. I never looked back.
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