A New Creative Outlet?

About two weeks ago... I reached a new "let me get healthy" phase that I tend to randomly get. However, with some friends to help keep me motivated, it actually seems to be sticking this time.

I know from experience... that me and diets... they just don't work. I'll do fine for a while... but eventually... forbidding myself from certain foods only comes around and does worse damage. I basically go on a binge of whatever I was keeping from myself.

So, this time... I've decided to take a different approach. If I can't really stop myself from eating certain stuff... then I should increase my physical activity. I've been hitting the gym with some friends at least twice a week. But, most importantly... I've enforced this "get your ass up and go on a walk."

Surprisingly... it's actually working. I think it's mostly because I do what I would've otherwise done... listen to music while lying on my bed.

When I'm bored and have nothing else to do... I just lay on my bed and listen to music. So, I figured... hey, you can listen to music and walk. Whenever I feel like I'm just going to listen to music... I get my ass up and just walk around my neighborhood for about 40 minutes.

But, yeah... all of this isn't really the focus of this entry...

What's been most surprising about these walks, is how much I don't even notice I'm actually walking. My mind just goes on like auto-pilot and different thoughts come and go. It's actually very therapeutic in a way... I feel like I can think about things that bother/stress me... or plan out things for my future... or who knows what else.

Now... I've never considered myself much of a writer... let alone a poet. But one of the other things that randomly pop in my head during these walks are random phrases.

And by random... I mean I'll be thinking about something... then a non-related phrase just interrupts... and then I continue with what I was thinking.

Up until tonight... I never really paid much attention to it. However, for some reason on tonight's walk, the random phrase started a whole flurry of random phrases... that in a way were actually connected.

So, I'm going to try and remember what I come up with and just type them here on this blog... mostly unedited... just as the thoughts come.

I have always considered myself to be a creative person... and I always feel the need to tap into some source of creative outlet. I do this with sketching, cooking, photography, even my lesson planning. And, maybe now I can include poetry?

::shrugs::

Well... I just want to put it out there that I'm not expecting any of what I do come up with to have any real poetic value... but, who's to say it still isn't poetry? It's what comes from my mind... and I felt this strong need to post it and make it concrete.

So, yeah... hopefully it's not just a one-time deal and I'll be able to have a set of poems cracked out. I'm actually excited about this.