Original text from initial website launch 2017
I have always considered the mind a wondrous thing...
Often serving me as an useful tool, occasionally however; deferring, inhibiting, dragging… When excited or stirred, not easily calmed down, but when put to focus; capable, decisive, determined and inventive. Marveling at its contradicitoriness; cloudy and fleeting thoughts transforming into indescribable clarity. Fast and bright train of thought interchanged with a dusky incoherent haze. Transparent or judgmental, reaching highs or sinking lows. Sometimes refreshingly creative and other times frustratingly repetitive and circular.
I find myself surprised with the directions, speed and leaps of my thoughts which may resemble my current state of emotions, or can be completely out of sync with what I feel. Its volatility and changeability make it hard to capture its identity in words… but I found myself relating to this sentence that someone once spoke to me:
The mind is the totality of our experiences.
From a young age, creating has been something that I enjoyed. As a child I seemed not (or at least less) bound by rules, expectations, criteria or goals. Creativity was there and flowed freely and I was producing all sorts of content. Art, crafts, drawings, stories, music. Somewhere along the road of growing up this ceased and I found myself only sporadically turning to the things that I used to love as means to express myself. However, my mind never seemed to stop fantasizing. Creating…
A desire to start expressing myself again arose in the past years and I have been contemplating a way to lift the blockade and have the river of creation finding its natural course again. This website serves as my Creativi-theatre. A personal playground for anything expressible. A platform where I can capture and display some of the journeys of my busy mind. A journal for fragments of imagination, thought-experiments, fantasies, facts, fiction, dreams, and the full array of experiences. However small or (in)significant. Once again unbound by rules, themes, restrictions.
I don’t know yet what it is…
…or what it will become.
But for now that’s okay. Time will tell.
I am pleased you arrived here,
Welcome to Mind Stories.
J.
