Tag: mental-health

  • My Thoughts Get Too Loud

    I’m a creative. 

    I think outside the box when I don’t need to. 

    I over complicate easy projects with intricate ideas that lead to overstimulation. 

    I want everything I do to be different. 

    I am my own worst critic. 

    I hate everything I do. 

    I burnout.

    I love to learn but my attention span is short.

    That person’s cool, would they collaborate? 

    Am I good at what I do? 

    How do I get better?

    What inspires me? 

    Everything.

    My thoughts get too loud. 

    I have unfinished ideas stacking on top of each other. I feel pressured into holding remembering every new creative thought before it disappears. My own imagination can be the bane of my life, it is EXHAUSTING. 

    However, my loud thoughts are where everything I create comes from. Every piece of writing, every idea, every moment of clarity started as noise in my head. The same things that overwhelm me to the extend of a burnout are also the things that allow me to see the world differently, see people differently and appreciate in ways that I once did not. 

    The vast majority of us share the same issues and it’s never the lack of ideas, it’s that we have too many. Our minds can sometimes feel louder than the outside world, like walking into a busy crowded room full of conversation, but not being able to make out a single word. One slight observation can spiral into a never ending chain of ideas that become too overwhelming to bear.

    Loud thoughts can keep you up at night. They interrupt conversations. They make sitting still become difficult and when your mind is always generating ideas, when does it switch off? 

    The goal really isn’t to silence your thoughts, the goal is to translate them into something that you can understand, giving your ideas another place to live. We all knowingly go through this as creatives, yet we all seem to feel alone in the process. 

  • Take Us Back

    It’s fair to say that in today’s world, we’re all searching for a happy place, something that distracts us from the chaos. We find ourselves going back to older music, nostalgic games, and memories that return us to simpler times in our lives.

    Take us back to when Chris Brown first came onto the scene with a sound and a vibe that felt out of this world, when music truly touched our souls. Take us back to the days when we had to trek to a friend’s house and knock on the door just to ask if they were coming out to play. Take us back to when every game release felt like a genuine level up. Take us back to when everything felt original.

    Success today comes from originality, yet so many people copy others in the hope of following the same path, and nine times out of ten, they fall off. People forget what they’re truly passionate about. I mean, what did you want to be when you were growing up? Being a warehouse operative, a receptionist, or a recruiter, just boring jobs in general is far from living the dream and if people say they’re happy then they’re probably not being honest. Every child’s innocent and imaginative mind is something many adults quietly envy. Take us back to when our lives and dreams felt full of endless possibilities. 

    And here’s the truth: they still can be.

    We’re not getting any younger, and living with regret is a heavy burden to carry. You can do it. Anything you put your mind to, you can achieve. When you’re passionate about something and you genuinely love it, the motivation follows. And there is a community out there waiting to support you.

    So take your mind back to those big dreams and get creative. We don’t deserve to be trapped in a system that doesn’t care about who we are.