If you're anything like me, when you have something you are really excited about, you want to talk about it with others.
No matter if it's a great movie that held an insane amount of tension throughout it, an awesome book that drew you in from its first page on, a new song that your friend or your partner sure would love if you'd just show it to him/her.
Or, since we are here ...
The very thing you are currently working on.
So, you put so much energy into creating something, you research and research until you know every single Google font of the day from last month.
You're fascinated by whatever it is you do.
You're almost exploding from excitement.
It's yours. Only yours.
Your own little world within the realms of your mind.
The warm feeling in your stomach, whenever your mind wanders to your current project.
Then, one day, you sit down for the weekly dinner with your family.
Everyone's talking about this and that. Jobs and what not.
But your mind can't stop spinning around what's so important to you.
And you can feel that question coming.
You can feel it. You don't like it. You even dread it a bit. You know, it won't do any good.
But then it comes.
Once your brother is done talking about his newest achievement at his job, mom stares at you.
"So, how are things going lately?" she asks.
The wall surrounding your inner world is a pretty thin one.
That untouched, whole world of your own is right behind those walls.
Your mom's question is like a straw being poked through those thin walls.
Once it's reached beyond the wall, everything just pours out.
All that excitement spouts out of your inner world, through your mouth, and into the real world.
You talk and talk about this and that of whatever it is you kept within those thin walls.
And it feels somehow good to finally get it out.
To share your excitement.
Until you come to your senses and see the look on your family's faces.
That look, that says "ahm, honey, a simple 'everything's okay' would've been enough".
Suddenly you feel empty.
There's a big hole in the walls that not only held, but as you see now, also protected your inner world.
And it doesn't even matter, that your dad may take the word after your gush of excitement and says, while his fork his hovering above his plate, ready to satfisfy his hunger:
"Well, that sounds pretty good, doesn't it?"
It's not the words or the reaction of others to your excitement.
You opened your world and exposed that little perfect world of your own to the outer world.
It's like giving someone else a glimpse into that world takes away its feelings of perfectness, of a completely untouched world.
You decide to stop talking about it with others, while you're driving back home. You decide to keep to yourself, until what you do is finished and ready to be shown to others.
It takes a few days, until that hole in the walls surrounding your world get smaller and smaller until it closes. Until the old excitement and feelings of your untouched world come back to you.
Your inner world fills up with excitement again and you feel great.
It's yours. Your own little world. Full of possibilities and fascinating scenery.
It took a full week to get the energy and excitement back, but now it's all yours again.
You sit there, staring at your plate.
The world around you is there, but at the same time it isn't really.
You're in your own little world again.
You hear the scrabbing of forks and knives around you, but they sound far away.
The warm feeling runs through your stomach again.
Excitement fills the world within your mind.
You feel like you could hold that feeling for...
"What about you, honey? How is your project going?"
No matter if it's a great movie that held an insane amount of tension throughout it, an awesome book that drew you in from its first page on, a new song that your friend or your partner sure would love if you'd just show it to him/her.
Or, since we are here ...
The very thing you are currently working on.
So, you put so much energy into creating something, you research and research until you know every single Google font of the day from last month.
You're fascinated by whatever it is you do.
You're almost exploding from excitement.
It's yours. Only yours.
Your own little world within the realms of your mind.
The warm feeling in your stomach, whenever your mind wanders to your current project.
Then, one day, you sit down for the weekly dinner with your family.
Everyone's talking about this and that. Jobs and what not.
But your mind can't stop spinning around what's so important to you.
And you can feel that question coming.
You can feel it. You don't like it. You even dread it a bit. You know, it won't do any good.
But then it comes.
Once your brother is done talking about his newest achievement at his job, mom stares at you.
"So, how are things going lately?" she asks.
The wall surrounding your inner world is a pretty thin one.
That untouched, whole world of your own is right behind those walls.
Your mom's question is like a straw being poked through those thin walls.
Once it's reached beyond the wall, everything just pours out.
All that excitement spouts out of your inner world, through your mouth, and into the real world.
You talk and talk about this and that of whatever it is you kept within those thin walls.
And it feels somehow good to finally get it out.
To share your excitement.
Until you come to your senses and see the look on your family's faces.
That look, that says "ahm, honey, a simple 'everything's okay' would've been enough".
Suddenly you feel empty.
There's a big hole in the walls that not only held, but as you see now, also protected your inner world.
And it doesn't even matter, that your dad may take the word after your gush of excitement and says, while his fork his hovering above his plate, ready to satfisfy his hunger:
"Well, that sounds pretty good, doesn't it?"
It's not the words or the reaction of others to your excitement.
You opened your world and exposed that little perfect world of your own to the outer world.
It's like giving someone else a glimpse into that world takes away its feelings of perfectness, of a completely untouched world.
You decide to stop talking about it with others, while you're driving back home. You decide to keep to yourself, until what you do is finished and ready to be shown to others.
It takes a few days, until that hole in the walls surrounding your world get smaller and smaller until it closes. Until the old excitement and feelings of your untouched world come back to you.
Your inner world fills up with excitement again and you feel great.
It's yours. Your own little world. Full of possibilities and fascinating scenery.
It took a full week to get the energy and excitement back, but now it's all yours again.
You sit there, staring at your plate.
The world around you is there, but at the same time it isn't really.
You're in your own little world again.
You hear the scrabbing of forks and knives around you, but they sound far away.
The warm feeling runs through your stomach again.
Excitement fills the world within your mind.
You feel like you could hold that feeling for...
"What about you, honey? How is your project going?"
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