Thursday's Children - TEDtalks
Or: Don't Shoot Yourself in Your Louboutins
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You can't
win if you don't play.
You can't
win if you don't play.
You can't
win if you don't play.
This is
my mantra right now.
I just finished the Last Looks revision of
a WIP I've been working on for a few years.
Doubts
are poltergeisting my thoughts. No one
will like it. No one will read it. No one will get it. No one will want it.
It's the
first story I've done longer than a poem, longer than a flash fiction, longer
than my longest short story.
Which
people seem to like.
I've even
won a few awards.
But
here's the crack on that soufflé. Can I bring my A-game to a
longer work. Who knows?
Gawd, I want to gouge my eyes out with an ice pick.
I want to
delete the whole thing. I want to print it out and set it on fire. I want to
pretend I never wrote it never thought it never even dared dream it could be
done by someone like me.
I'm no
one.
I'm
nothing.
I'm just
another minnow flash in a swift stream.
But TED
says I'm not. TED keeps telling me that anybody can be somebody. Sometimes, TED
reminds me that I need to live the life I'd envy someone else living.
TED
inspires me. When I'm down about #firstworldproblems, TED tells me "Look
at your life, you disgusting, over-privileged, over-spending, consumer
whore." Not in those words, mind you, but I get it. I get it, TED.
There's
more to be done. Messages that need spreading. TED inspires me to talk to
people. Find out their stories. Learn what they mean when they say things under
or over or around their words.
TED
inspires my dialogue - with other people, with characters in my stories.
TED tells
me what people care about enough to fight for. What dialogues need to happen in
the great big story of Humanity.
And if
those people can change the world, then by the transitive law of mathematics, I
can change my own goddamn life.
Or at
least, attempt to.
Many
great inventions came out of an attempt to invent something completely
different.
But, you
can't win if you don't play.
No
sirree, you can't win if you don't play.
Don't
shoot yourself in your Louboutin's, for chrissake! You can't win if you don't
goddamn play.
Here are the TEDtalks that have motivated me recently:
Have you watched a TEDtalk? Have any TEDtalks inspired you?
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