Picture this: It’s your senior year of college. Graduation is less than a month away, and you’ve slowly lost your grip on the little things that make you. . . you. For some, senior year may seem like the perfect time to fully embrace new experiences, new jobs, new relationships, etc. But for me, senior year has been a constant struggle to find a balance between fun and work. As a result, I feel uninspired. If you happen to feel this way, fear not.
Here are 3 things I do when I feel uninspired:
I explore new (or old) interests.
Whenever I feel like I’m being crushed under the stress and chaos of college life, especially as a senior, I find time to search for new things to excite me. I was introduced to K-pop a year ago, so I’m always in search of new music from different groups and always in search of something to pull me out of a rut. Lately, I haven’t had the most time to be a full-time fan girl, but I listen to new groups here and there. I love groups like ATEEZ, Seventeen, NCT 127, Monsta X, and more.
My love for ATEEZ and K-pop inspired me to be open to new things. I had a chance to go to their concert with one of my best friends, and that was new and exciting. I tapped into a whole other side of my style and myself. So, in search of new interests, you may just discover what you were supposed to all along.
I read and create
For all my fellow writers out there, it’s so easy to get trapped in a cycle of procrastination and writer’s block. I used to write romance stories in my free time since I was in middle school. Back then, the characters would seemingly create themselves, and the stories would write themselves. I would have all the time in the world to read all the romance novels I could find on the internet. These days, I personally don’t have time to read a full-on novel for inspiration anymore, so I’ve been reading short stories and comics. With comics, the illustrations help me picture the story, and sometimes I even find myself inserting myself into that universe or creating my own character in a new world I created. I don’t have to have something written on a page to prove that I created something. When I find the time to write it, I will.
I don’t (well, I try not to) beat myself up
Life is hard, and I believe I’m doing the best that I can. As I get older, I realize how important those times were when I was younger, those times where I could spend hours just writing with little to worry about (miraculously, my homework got done somehow). I’m at the point where I haven’t written creatively for myself in over a year, but I’m not entirely discouraged by it. I still have hope that I’ll find the words soon.
Rachel