Monday to Friday: Behind a keyboard, I write, I write and sometimes, I just feel...

If I were to set my days to music, Monday to Friday, I would definitely use Sam Cook's song "Bring it on Home to me". It sounds uplifting and fun, but it gradually feels a little sad and intimate. I make my living, pretty much by writing. I do it here at HIVE, at least 5 times a week, also on other sites and basically it all starts and ends behind a laptop. It's a craft that I love, and that I enjoy. I've always been different in many ways, and maybe this is something common to all bloggers or content creators; a cliché, a joke, ha, who knows?

But I have felt for most of my life, that difference between not fitting in so well with others and doing so by analysing and pausing a bit to see perspectives. That ability led me to write. In my early days I was even worse at it than I am now.... Spelling? What is that? Later, I developed perfectionism and "married" that trait to my personality. It is my most distinctive trait in terms of elaboration, creativity and action, but at the same time it is also a kind of prison?

So you see, for all of us who work in this business of creating stories, creating content. Finding words to relate situations, exceptional or not, is a challenge. Because it's not just about getting it right, it also has to be funny, politically correct, sincere and in a language for all kinds of users. That, to say the least, is exhausting.... Why? Because it requires repeating the same activity systematically. And that's the worst thing for creativity and passion, which in the first instance is what motivated us (or, in my first person singular, motivated me).

A lot of the time, what I do is deal with tiredness and procrastination through music. I have so many playlists, I've lost track of which is which. There are ones for sad, unhappy, euphoric and disinterested moods, haha. Sometimes I even just listen to experimental music to drastically change my mood and emotion while I'm writing. Doing this makes me read more relatable, honest, but above all, it doesn't completely eliminate my passion and spirit as a writer by having to apply so many quality "filters" to the texts.

While it's not easy to try to be genuine, I do my best and do my best. There are some amazingly talented creators out there. Even here at HIVE I have come across true geniuses. People, who I would love to label so that you can read them too, but who at the same time would bring me some ethical problems. Not everything is so negative or fatalistic. In fact, writing, posting and blogging has changed me transcendentally. From being just another ordinary person, to being an ordinary person with skill, haha. +10 for me, guys and girls.

Now, seriously speaking, I think what we, the content creators; especially those of us who make a living out of writing, literature or blogging, have challenge after challenge when we have years of this habit, passion and work. We are the generation of those who can write without so many strings attached, but at the same time we face the chronic boredom offered by immediacy and massive over-publishing everywhere. In other words, too much content, too little substance, too many interactions?

Somehow everything for me is repetitive. Sometimes it feels better and at other times it feels like a never-ending mess. And I haven't even talked about the process of taking pictures, editing them, putting them together, etc.... But surely, I'll leave that anecdote for another time. I don't even know. The way things are going, maybe in less time than you or I could imagine they will invent some AI that will do absolutely everything better, but in a fraction of the time that any of us could. Anyway, here I will be, behind a keyboard, writing and writing; being honest, authentic, irreverent.