Operation Achieve Anything: Day Two-Hundred-Ten, Dateline 7-29-2018
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“The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.”
Good evening crickets. Welcome to day number two-hundred-ten of Operation Achieve Anything. Here we go with another Sunday which means I’m going to try to make this one quick so that I can enjoy the rest of my day doing nothing in order to relax to prepare for the upcoming week. With that said, I’m going to skip the more extended intro and jump right into to discussing the assignments for today.
At first, I was excited by the fact that the Achieve Anything… book was focused on fantasy because this is an area of my life where I really shine. Over the past couple of days, I’ve been able to ramble on for pages about how I like to play in pretend world. Last night, I was supposed to take a half hour to immerse myself in music and then share any thoughts that came to my mind. The book also suggested opting for more cheerful music because this assignment was supposed to be fun.
I did as the assignment asked and listened to some fun music which ended up lasting longer than just half an hour but because I opted to listen to lighter music to avoid getting depressed, I don’t really think that I tapped into the fantastical areas of my mind. When I listen to depressing music, I have no problems watching the drama play out in my head, but when it comes to the lighter music, that’s may be fun to listen to, it may inspire youthful nostalgia, but I wouldn’t say that it motivates the escapist in me to want to escape the real world.
I wish that I had it in me to stick to these upbeat tunes, but there is just something about music where once I start listening, I always end up traveling down some pretty dark and depressing roads. This is another reason why I’ll go through phases where I’ll get really into music that I like for the novelty over the true value of the content. That’s not to say that I listen to terrible music, but I often feel that I have to force myself to listen to music that out of my wheelhouse if I’m in the mood for a song.
So I did fulfill the task at hand, but I don’t think that it triggered the outcome that the book expected. Then again, the music that I did choose may not have inspired my imagination, but it did put me in a better mood until I started to jones like a depression addict and had to turn the playlist off before I fell back into old routines, and the fact that I stopped myself is positive.
Now, for today’s assignment, I’m supposed to take all of these fantasies that I’ve had over the past couple of days and infuse them with enough reason to make them achievable goals. This shouldn’t be all that hard because I often note which of my fantasies I feel are at least somewhat attainable versus the fantasies that would take a miracle to complete in order to avoid looking too delusional.
As always, you’ll have to wait for tomorrow’s update to see what I manage to come up with. Until then, it’s now time for me to wrap this up as usual by say, good day and good luck to you and all of your projects.
Talk to you soon.
Sincerely,
The Wicker Breaker
P.S. Below are links to my novel, which I plan to promote as part of Operation Achieve Anything, as well as a link to where you can buy the book that is providing the structure to this project in case you would like to purchase it in order to play along.
