Writers Block
Mar. 28th, 2010 03:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shinelumiereAs I approach the end of my current semester of classes I wonder what it is I'm going to do with myself. As with any student close to graduation, as I am, this is something that most anyone who knows is asking me.
While this can become annoying, as any question asked many times over will, it is something that needs to be answered.
This past Thursday during my break between afternoon and evening classes, my friend Val and I were given to the partial life story of a schoolmate we barely know.
I say partial because although we found out that he was adopted, about his adventures in China and the event that made his mother kick him out, the conversation was mostly about his plans on what he'd like to do with his education. If your interested, he wants to own a record company that keeps its artists clean, write books, and at least dabble in culinary arts. The record company is the main one he's aiming for though.
It's not that I don't know what I'd like to do with my education, its more knowing how to go about it. Having the dream and making it come true are two separate things.
I would love nothing more than to own my own book store. The designs and themes of this book store continually change in my mind with each new book that I read. I myself have a very active imagination, and thoroughly enjoy the worlds that the books I read take me into. I also happen to greatly feel that this active imagination and love of reading should be passed on to future generations. Much like many people campaign that children are spending too much time watching television and playing video games, I campaign that those same things drain imagination. Yes, imagination can be fed by these things, they give the brain more mental images to work with, but they also put children in a mindset of instant gratification.
That rant aside, basically what I would like to accomplish with the bookstore of my dreams is to pass the love of reading on to future generations. I also hope that I'd be able to encourage older generations that look at reading as a chore to see it as something that could become enjoyable.
I recently shared this dream with the members of my Biology class, because the teacher asked us to share what we'd like to do with our lives. When I shared this dream, I was given a very strong positive response. From one person being very tired of the "reign" of "big boss" book stores like Barnes & Nobles and Borders, to several being very excited at the idea of a small "mom and pop" type of book store.
Despite this positive response, I still doubt if I would be able to bring about such a thing as a small bookstore to life and have it thrive in the world of Barnes & Nobles, Borders, and Amazon.com. Besides the worry of how to accomplish a thriving shop in the face of such big names in books, there's also the worry of how to go about making even the beginning of such a thing happen, successful or not.
Well, enough worrying for one day. If I keep holding this post off to finish all the thoughts I have running around in my head about it, I'll never post anything.
While this can become annoying, as any question asked many times over will, it is something that needs to be answered.
This past Thursday during my break between afternoon and evening classes, my friend Val and I were given to the partial life story of a schoolmate we barely know.
I say partial because although we found out that he was adopted, about his adventures in China and the event that made his mother kick him out, the conversation was mostly about his plans on what he'd like to do with his education. If your interested, he wants to own a record company that keeps its artists clean, write books, and at least dabble in culinary arts. The record company is the main one he's aiming for though.
It's not that I don't know what I'd like to do with my education, its more knowing how to go about it. Having the dream and making it come true are two separate things.
I would love nothing more than to own my own book store. The designs and themes of this book store continually change in my mind with each new book that I read. I myself have a very active imagination, and thoroughly enjoy the worlds that the books I read take me into. I also happen to greatly feel that this active imagination and love of reading should be passed on to future generations. Much like many people campaign that children are spending too much time watching television and playing video games, I campaign that those same things drain imagination. Yes, imagination can be fed by these things, they give the brain more mental images to work with, but they also put children in a mindset of instant gratification.
That rant aside, basically what I would like to accomplish with the bookstore of my dreams is to pass the love of reading on to future generations. I also hope that I'd be able to encourage older generations that look at reading as a chore to see it as something that could become enjoyable.
I recently shared this dream with the members of my Biology class, because the teacher asked us to share what we'd like to do with our lives. When I shared this dream, I was given a very strong positive response. From one person being very tired of the "reign" of "big boss" book stores like Barnes & Nobles and Borders, to several being very excited at the idea of a small "mom and pop" type of book store.
Despite this positive response, I still doubt if I would be able to bring about such a thing as a small bookstore to life and have it thrive in the world of Barnes & Nobles, Borders, and Amazon.com. Besides the worry of how to accomplish a thriving shop in the face of such big names in books, there's also the worry of how to go about making even the beginning of such a thing happen, successful or not.
Well, enough worrying for one day. If I keep holding this post off to finish all the thoughts I have running around in my head about it, I'll never post anything.
