REPETITION

Although we are creatures of habit, many of us become bored very easily. I have heard people complain because their bus or train or automobile follows the same route to work each day. How could they be bored?

How can any new or known path, a routine way, be any less new and full of possibility than a route traveled on any day? I like to believe that I would see something unique each time I passed along the way. Haven't you looked at paintings a second time, or sat gazing at it for a long time, and seen more and more as time passes? The same happens each day as you move through your routine.

There is constant change everywhere in everything. There is a new experience to collect every day. For writers, each new experience, or a repeat of the pattern, offers new ideas, new descriptions, new characters to use in our work. Just walking in your own neighborhood will bring something different to the eye.

Repeat your route of travel. Repeat your daily walk. Look at the same paintings or photographs again and again, waiting for the multitude of stories or ideas to appear. I guarantee you won't be bored.