Doldrums - The Crushing burden of the Creative
I like to play the “ would you “ game sometimes. I’ve recently wondered if someone offered me a pill that would forever relieve me from anxiety and doldrums but also takeaway creativity, if I’d be able to shallow it.
What a relief it would be to be freed from my darkest, most anxious self... but what would occupy its place instead? Who would I be? Much of my identity is founded in being a creative.
It’s both, what I like and loathe about myself the most. Would you consider it?