So, I’ve been somewhat absent from Steemit lately. (More like, a whole month of desperately wanting to connect but not being able due to excess of patria. Worry not if you don quite get that one. You’re lucky if you don’t)
With hard work and A Little Help From My Friends, I am now officially able to connect again. Which is good...ish? You see, I’ve been sitting in front of my recently brought-back-from-the-dead mini laptop for about an hour now… and nothing interesting is coming out! It’s like the inspiration flow just shut down. Maybe my creative muscle is just atrophied due to lack of use (my English-writing muscle certainly is!). Or maybe, and here is where the perfectionism part comes in, I’m struggling to write something worth the so-awaited return. I feel like I owe it to Steemit. I owe it to you, who’s kindly reading this. And to me, because I’ve really missed all this.
It happens sometimes. We want to do something, but we want to do it right. No, we want to do it the best we can. But in order to do that we hope the whimsical muses will come and enlighten us, so we wait. The perfect moment—that one where inspiration, time to work and energy are all in peak value—never seems to come. Maybe we can’t just wait for it. Maybe, as with many things in engineering, we don’t work with the best values—that sometimes take an infinite amount of time to come—but we work within an acceptable 95% range doable in a finite time.
Maybe this is enough for now, just being back. Maybe a bunch of 80% delivered in a decent amount of time are better than a single 100% that might never come. Maybe it isn’t possible to achieve perfection, but we can always aim for it. Normal distribution says, it’ll probably be enough.
Welcome back. I would love to know what excess of patria means!
Thank you! Well it's kind of a comical expression we have in our country. Nothing works and we have nothing, but the government insists we're OK. One of the favourite words for them is 'patria' which means something like 'homeland', but now the meaning has been so dirtied we use it to symbolize the irony.
It's a little deeper than that, but essentially it's a pun against the actual Venezuelan government. I hope that made sense hahaha
Thanks for the welcoming words :)
Ah-ha. Reading it now with the idea of an ironic twist on the notion of homeland, it has come more into focus. I know some people from Venezuela. A beautiful country, but with many challenges.
Nice to have you back :D
Thanks! :D
I'm sure your 100% will come back! And I'm glad you're back!!
Well I'm hoping for at least 95% hahaha thanks @caleblailmusik :)
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STOPI know the burden of perfectionism far too well. I think, it's important to accept at some point, that doing the best we can is probably better than hoping to get a 100% result :)
It is :)
The worst part is when you know that and are still haunted by that feeling of 'I could have done better'. Add in a natural procrastination habit and boom! you have yourself a frustrated genius. Or, well, just a frustrated person.
Welcome back @isa93! I like this one and I missed your creative muscle:-)
Thank you!
I'm happy to see your art is still embellishing Steemit :)
Thank you Isa!