Tonight I sat down and looked at the screen of my computer for what seemed like hours. I've struggled to think of what to write before but I usually come up with something that's reasonably interesting or worth reading; at least in my humble opinion. But tonight I was suffering from a disease known as writer's block. So I turned to my friends for help. One of them had no ideas and was not helpful whatsoever. Another told me I should write about writer's block; hence this introduction. However, another friend of mine told me I should write about what I would do if 1000 tennis balls just showed up at my door. That suggestion was too good to pass up. I wouldn't have come up with something like that in my wildest dreams.
If 1000 tennis balls just happened to come to my door right now, my first idea would be to go to a dog shelter and have the best day of my life playing with all of the dogs. I would pack my car with the tennis balls box by box and go to the shelter. I would take every single ball and give it to each one of the animals. To see the faces of each of those dogs as what could possibly be their favorite thing on this planet. I've seen how dogs can be with a tennis ball and to see that over and over again 1000 times would be immeasurable.
The idea of 1000 tennis balls coming to my door was something incredibly outside of my thought processes. How did she even come up with a question like that? I've always questioned my creativity since I've always thought of myself as a right-brained person which is more of a logical/analytical type of thought process, where as the left-brained person is more creative and abstract. I prefer to have a prompt to write; a direction placed in front of me. It's always been so hard for me to just pick something like that, so when my friend suggested something so incredible, I was honestly taken aback. It literally made me think on my life. I know we've all heard someone say that in a joking way or one that wasn't serious, but I seriously did it. So now I'm sitting here wondering if writing is even something that will work for me. Until recently I hadn't thought much on it. I love writing these articles and writing for my school's paper, but I'm usually given a direction. The way I see it, there are two ways I can go with this. On one hand, I can quit. I can give up on it and say I'm not good enough. On the other hand, I can keep trying to come up with new ideas and then think of new strategies to gain insight on what to write about. So in conclusion, thank you, Katie for the magnificent idea!
