I have this state of being locked up that I’ve named “Importance Lock.” I don’t think it’s unique to me, so I wanted to share it. 🙂
If you’re experiencing it, too, please make some noise 😀
For instance, when buying a new notebook, planning things like “I’ll write my projects, plans, and lists in this, it will be great,” yet the notebook still sits unopened on the edge of my desk, its edges not even creased (you know, the way you carefully bend the cover of a notebook or book the first time you open it – book and stationery enthusiasts will understand me 🙂 ).
Because of the value I place on the notebook, an “Importance Lock” forms, and while those pristine pages wait for my brand-new projects, I can’t bring myself to open it and jot down a few words, draw my plan diagrams or create my lists.
Despite the convenience of having notepads on my computer and Sheets in Gmail Drive, I’m aware of my different connection with pen and paper.
That is until I got a drawing tablet.
Yes, I haven’t made any significant progress with the drawing tablet I got in the past few years because, just like a newly bought notebook, I can’t bring myself to use it. Importance Lock. I don’t know if I am waiting for its technology to become obsolete and unusable, but that’s the Importance Lock. The product is right at hand; yes, I’m lucky; yes, I have some talents to use it, but I lock myself out, get locked, and can’t use it.
But just open your notebook and write! Draw! 🙂 Some of you will say, “Just pick up the pencil and start; don’t overthink about it,” but it’s such a lock that, despite having a world of projects and lists to do, the moment I pick up the tablet or notebook, it’s like all of them just fly away. But don’t be too hard on yourself; the existence of Importance Lock has started to diminish nowadays anyway; how nice that you have one or two items you can’t bring yourself to use.
Is it a matter of courage to “dive headfirst into a new notebook”?
I’m not a very brave person; speaking for myself, my only story is about having written lengthy articles on MS, trying to share and make things better. It’s probably about going through the process without distancing myself from my loved ones.
Actually, I’m also very eager to learn a new computer program, and I dive headfirst into training programs in this regard. I don’t see this as courage, either. But to start writing something in a new notebook on the day it’s bought?
Wow……
I’ll try talking to AI and learning its language, of course, but should I start writing in a new notebook as soon as I get it?
Wait a minute, where’s my plush blanket? I need to wrap myself in it. :p
Am I exaggerating? I don’t know 🙂 I’m smiling as I write, and I hope you are too because despite living in the age of technology, buying a new notebook brings to mind definitions like “new hopes, new projects, brand-new beginnings, endless worlds of imagination.” Yes, maybe my hand is timid in using it, but it’s like the start of a story whose ending no one knows.
A notebook can start with a story and turn into a recipe book, give up and turn into a book of summaries after a few pages, or turn into a sketchbook altogether. No one needs to know; there are no judgmental looks, just you and the notebook. The complete opposite of social media…
Let’s just overcome the Importance Lock and start that project that makes our hearts flutter. Let’s open a new page in the notebook.
I mentioned that the Importance Lock has decreased nowadays, and this is entirely because we live in the age of consumption. We constantly consume, don’t produce, and throw away without repairing when things get old, not to mention the ruthless use.
