Our desire to write

 

I often think about how long it takes some writers to get their inspiration and how, suddenly, they get the lightbulb moment to write about it and complete their works. At school, we were given a topic or a photograph to look at and asked to write about it, what it meant to us. It always seemed so easy to do then, as I loved English and writing, and had a young, creative mind.

Today there is so much going on in our world around us, you would think it would be easy to get the inspiration to write.  Yet when it comes to it, I find it quite hard to think up something off the cuff, rather than be asked to write about a particular object or situation, which I have always found it easier, as the idea has already been presented to you.

When I woke up the other morning at around 5.30, the sun was shining through the gaps in the Venetian blinds, so I got up to look at it, as it was my desire to go and see the beauty God had created for us to enjoy, and also something that may get me up early and inspire me to do some of the long awaited jobs around the house.

When I went to the window and opened the blinds, I noticed the very bright orange colour of the sun, as the photograph that I took shows above.  The sun was shining so brightly and was so strong, it was very hard to look anywhere near it, and all sorts of things went through my mind, about the sunshine, just how different it looked and how hard it was to actually look at it once I had opened the curtains, and what is going on with the sunshine these days as it always seems too bright to look at.

I ended up photographing it quickly, without having to look straight at it, which would have been very hard to do anyway.

When I looked at the photograph afterwards, it amazed me, and I asked myself, what did I see in the photograph, what did it mean to me and how would I describe it  if I wrote about it.

Writing can be quite challenging sometimes, but then, the photograph of the sunshine was important enough for me to write about and share on my blog.

What do you see in the sunshine. 

God bless.