Additionally, my graduation from college did not prove to be
the magical key to gainful and rewarding
employment I had hoped. After 9 months as an instructional aide at a middle
school I am spending my summer sending out resume’s and filling out online job
applications. So far I’m up to around 110 job applications without an
interview. As you might imagine this is not a condition which lends itself to
the creative process necessary for writing. It makes me wonder how some of the
great giants in literature were able to pen such unbelievably imaginative and
magical tales while living in abject poverty. They were better men and women
than myself for that alone.
Let’s go ahead and check off the rest of the boxes under Murphy’s
Law, shall we? Upon graduating from college I was immediately laid off the job
I have had for the past six years. I actually felt OK about this initially as I
believed my degree would make me more attractive to better paying employers. Unfortunately,
I spent the next 15 months sending out around 400+ applications and resume’s!
To
my surprise friends I had considered ‘true blue’ became too busy to pick up the
phone when I called. There’s an old English proverb which comes to mind. “In
times of prosperity, friends will be plenty, in times of adversity, not one in
twenty.” It has proven to be one of the most accurate quotes I have ever
read. I could go into great detail here,
but to what end? Suffice to say I have learned anew the deeply regrettable experience
of betrayal. It will probably not be the last time for me, but I pray I am
never as gullible or as trusting as I have been in the past. Funny thing is how
your enemies and detractors almost always enter the room with a smile. Still, karma
is an immutable teacher and it has many lessons to teach and so I will let it
repay my betrayers in kind.
So within this confusion I have found myself unable to coax
the fertile seeds of creativity to bloom sufficiently enough that I might
harvest them.
I’m presently working my way through Julie Cameron’s The
Artists’ Way in an effort to re-discover the creative path I once tread so
effortlessly. To be fair, the path was never clear and apparent and had been
all but completely overtaken with the grass and weeds of self-doubt and
indecision, but I still somehow knew how to get where I needed to go, even when
the path seemed to have disappeared. Here’s to finding my way back again. Soon.
More updates to come. Hopefully, better ones.
Time will tell.
Time will tell.