Discipline

 A hard word that.  Discipline.  We are all creatures of habit.  We tend to stick to our daily rituals and routines including what we do when we wake up.  That includes the bathroom rituals, maybe cleaning the teeth, passing water or whatever else. That includes coffee or tea or a big breakfast.  For some that includes daily meditation or even a quick run around the park to quicken the muscles after a short period of hibernation o what you might call a well-earned rest.  

Writing however is a discipline I would like to break into but it has always been in the backburner. It has never really materialised although there have been spurts of creativity which I wish would be part of my daily rituals.  I have even revived a writing course that I have put aside and abandoned some years back.  I paid some $100 to be put back on the list.  I was going to submit assignments, read more, write more.  But sadly I didn't even touch the materials and the projects I was supposed to do.  That's just arrant laziness or procrastination, a protracted one.

Many sad stories abounded during the covid pandemic. Many people stayed home and avoided crowds.  Many lost their jobs.  Many just got stuck at home being challenged by the deafening silence after turning off the dreaded television which became boring after a while.  Mind you there were a few good shows, mini-series to watch even with a number of free trials like one month with Prime, three months with Binge.  But after a while I seeked out something else, wanting to do something more challenging in the area of graphic design, photo manipulation, video creation; getting expertise in some new skills.  

But really in the back burner is writing.  That's one thing I really want to put in front or at least put it at equal par with the other interests.  So this typing right now is an exercise maybe to jumpstart the process.  Let me see how far I will go with imposing some discipline with the use of some courage.  Somebody defined courage as doing the thing you don't want to do.  So maybe with this courage I can have discipline which then translates into routines which become rituals.