Possessing a creative mind, after all, is something like having a border collie for a pet: It needs to work, or else it will cause you an outrageous amount of trouble. Give your mind a job to do, or else it will find a job to do, and you might not like the job it invents {eating the couch, digging a hole through the living room floor, biting the mailman, etc.}. It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case that if I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something {myself, a relationship, or my own peace of mind}. I firmly believe that we all need to find something to do in our lives that stops us from eating the couch.
( Elizabeth Gilbert )
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