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The Struggles Of Writers Block

When you need your brain the most, it fails.

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Having writers block can be frustrating at times. You never seem to have writers block until it’s the night before a paper that’s worth half your grade is due, or when you have to write an important speech to present in front of the entire school. It’s almost as if your mind wants you to fail. The part of your brain that handles creativity shuts off the flow of water that is your imagination the exact moment you need it most and your left there looking like a clueless child who can’t even count to ten yet. Maybe it’s because you’re putting yourself under too much pressure, or maybe it’s because you have to wait awhile for a little inspiration. But what if it was all planned before you even sat down to write?

What if your brain was fed up with you using it only when it was convenient for you? Watching all the television in the world, playing video games for three straight hours and never even taking a glance at a book. You only ever do things to make yourself happy, because the brain is the part of us that gives us our personality. By that logic, you would be reading books and stimulating your mind more if your brain wanted you to do so. But you know that voice in the back of your head? It’s so quiet you don’t even know it’s a voice sometimes. It’s that little inkling that you get when you know you aren’t supposed to be doing something but you do it anyway? That feeing you probably call regret or remorse? It’s your brain telling you to stop, you just don’t hear it.

People are naturally rebellious. When we are teens, we rebel against our parents. We feel the need to rebel against anything that isn’t right. So why shouldn’t our brains? Every time you are doing something you know is hurting your brain, your brain makes a note of it. It will wait until you need it most and then it will fail on you. This is purposeful and calculated, as your brain is only trying to help you realize the harm you are bringing to it.

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