Impact Impression Blog

I hear some self acclaimed writers say that writing is like a second nature to them and when they start, they never wanna stop! Naturally, I scoff at these brutes, but within me I feel like I'll never be as good as them.  Has this ever happened to you? A few minutes after you start writing, you pause to reread what you've written. You adjust something here, polish something there, delete a sentence. Suddenly, you find it hard to start writing again. You've lost the flow.

"The tyranny of the Urgent" Just this morning, a friend asked me a sensitive question which went thus: Between earning and saving, which is easier to do? It looks like an easy question but think again. Which is easier to you? Me? I find it easier to make money than to save. Unfortunately, many youngsters are in this category. We think that it's better to work and earn money; saving can wait. Who needs to save anyway when you earn regularly from your labour? Seriously? If you have ever asked this rhetoric, you need your psyche checked!

Very early Thursday morning a friend sent me an invitation via email. The e-card was very colourful and attractive -  creative. I was excited about the event he was inviting me to - it was his birthday party. I'm not usually a party freak but this pal of mine is one person that I can pause anything (not literal!) to attend  his invite. I didn't really read what was on the card - I just took note of the Title (Birthday Bash - hahaa) and Date, finish!

Researchers Watson and Raynor wanted to test the idea that fear could be acquired through classical conditioning. Their subject was Little Albert, an eleven-month-old son of a female employee at the clinic. The child's mother knew nothing about the experiment. Watson and Raynor presented Albert with a white laboratory rat while sounding a loud noise. Little Albert soon associated the loud noise with the white rat and was conditioned to fear the rat. This fear was then generalised to other fluffy white objects such a Santa's beard and a sealskin coat.

As a fiction writer, I get really irked when after putting in much effort in a manuscript, I find out that a movie (I hadn't seen prior to the writing of my story) has almost the same story line as mine. I feel dissed and the once upon a time best story - which I was very proud of - becomes another waste of time. This unfortunate mishap continued for quite sometime and I was fast losing the interest to put down the things - always - playing in my imagination (After all, there are dozens who are seeing the exact same thing I'm seeing - or even better!)

I read a book 3 years ago that opined that the very things that make us human are limitations - pain, obstacles, age, weakness etc. These qualities are not found in the people tagged, 'Super Humans'. That's why you see the likes of Superman  and Captain America  doing impossible things, moving through barriers (and making it look easy). The thing is that it is not just uneasy, most of their stunts are impossible - I hate using the word Impossible  but in this case it fits perfectly! The only reason why these Super Beings  seem untouchable and all powerful - that is assuming they are real - is because they are not humans (at least not 100%).

"All animals are equal but some are more equal than others..." Remember this quote from Animal Farm? The book was a rocker. Very touchy and made a lot of sense, but that's not where I'm going. What makes some animals - in this case humans - more equal than others? Guess where I'm going? Yeah - superiority syndrome.