Animals

You're yelling at me,

"write something, 

anything"

But I have nothing to say.

I'm trying. 

So I'll tell you about the time I bungee-jumped off a bridge in the Amazon, or the day I realized I'm too afraid to drive a car.

But even the most entertaining of anecdotes don't know how to fill this void, or rather, this heavy cement  block.

And even the few words I have bring me to a dead end. Thought cuts you off when you least expect it. 

"Writer's Block is for the Weak" used to be a motto of mine when I thought I was invincible with a pencil.

And then one day I had nothing left to say so I threw out that motto and wrote a new one.

"Do it for the Readers" I scribbled into my notebook, and then when I realized that the only readers I had were my friends, [and only because I asked them to] I decided I needed a change.

"Do it for Yourself," was my inspirational line. But nobody likes cliches, especially me. 

Then I finally asked myself, do I need a motto to legitimize what I do? 

So I threw out the notebook all together. 

The day I realized I would probably never be writing for a profession led me to wonder why I often stay up all night laboriously hacking away on Microsoft Word.

And I can't help but ask, does everything you do have to relate to your professional goals?

Should I be sleeping right now in order to stay awake in class in order get good grades in order to graduate with honors and receive a high paying job?

Am I looking for an end result with this?

Is everything we do about a final product?

In order to avoid questions that make my head spin I've come up with a simple conclusion:

This is a need.

And we are humans,

We fulfill our needs.