1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,759 Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say 2 00:00:03,799 --> 00:00:08,000 yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes. 3 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:11,759 So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged, 4 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:15,160 and here we are. I am so grateful that somehow, 5 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:20,320 some way, your computer or your smartphone found this place, 6 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:22,920 right here, where you and I can just have a conversation. 7 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:24,960 I wish there was a way that I could hear 8 00:00:25,039 --> 00:00:28,199 your voice, your reaction, your emotions, your pitch, your volume, 9 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:31,239 your tone. But if you don't mind, I just want 10 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:34,439 to share a thought. I call this the daily mess 11 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:37,079 because I'm a daily writer, and as a daily writer, 12 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:39,479 I find myself to be a silent wolf. I'm that 13 00:00:40,079 --> 00:00:43,240 animal that sits beneath the brush of a tree and 14 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:45,640 I look at life. I take a lot of notes, 15 00:00:46,119 --> 00:00:49,799 and it's kind of crazy, many many, many times. But 16 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:52,000 then someone will say, you know, I was just thinking 17 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,159 about that the other day. This is the daily mess. 18 00:00:55,880 --> 00:01:00,799 I'm extremely guilty of muttering these words every morning. It 19 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:04,719 all happens way too fast. That's my reaction to the 20 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:09,079 arrival of yet another work day. My average workday is 21 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:12,719 anywhere between ten to fifteen hours. That's what I personally 22 00:01:12,799 --> 00:01:15,920 expect to get out of me. But it's by choice. 23 00:01:16,359 --> 00:01:20,120 It's personal expectations and ambitions that keep me in the 24 00:01:20,159 --> 00:01:23,840 game of trying to gain Now when compared to the 25 00:01:23,879 --> 00:01:26,200 amount of hours I sleep, which is between seven to 26 00:01:26,239 --> 00:01:30,680 eight hours, the reality is it all happens way too fast. 27 00:01:31,719 --> 00:01:34,920 My parents worked late into their seventies. They never saw 28 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,760 age as being a barrier. Then my father's body began 29 00:01:38,799 --> 00:01:42,280 to break down. The most simple things became tougher for 30 00:01:42,359 --> 00:01:45,760 him to do. The goal is to meet face to 31 00:01:45,799 --> 00:01:50,439 face with the odds of being different. Sadly, there'll come 32 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:53,480 a time when every single one of us are going 33 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,799 to have a voice that has to make a choice 34 00:01:56,879 --> 00:02:00,879 and it's really not going to matter, which is every 35 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:05,000 bit the reason why I write and why I'm extremely 36 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:09,360 grateful for every day that is present. I celebrate Christmas 37 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:13,639 every day. I do, and it's because on July twenty first, 38 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:17,080 two thousand and nine, I was blessed with a heart attack, 39 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,599 an eye opener. But I've been a daily writer since 40 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:23,840 July of nineteen ninety four, and I'll bet you somewhere 41 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,879 between July of nineteen ninety four and July of two 42 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:29,960 thousand and nine I decided I was going to celebrate 43 00:02:30,039 --> 00:02:32,719 Christmas every day, because every day is a gift. It's 44 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:35,719 just that it was enhanced and empowered on the heart 45 00:02:35,719 --> 00:02:39,879 attack day, or as I call it, my rebirthday. But 46 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,400 maybe if we go back to the nineteen seventies when 47 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:47,000 I was baptized with my mother in church, maybe that's 48 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:51,120 when I started celebrating Christmas every single day. But it 49 00:02:51,159 --> 00:02:55,120 took all this time to put it in writing. It's 50 00:02:55,199 --> 00:02:59,360 all happening way too fast. They say, we can remember 51 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:01,400 all all the way back to when we were three 52 00:03:01,479 --> 00:03:06,960 years old. I do have those memories. Nine atoms in Billings, Montana, 53 00:03:07,039 --> 00:03:11,439 a white little duplex, nowhere near a park, but Riverside 54 00:03:11,479 --> 00:03:14,159 Junior High School, which I went to school at, was 55 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:19,199 just down the road. See, it's all happening too fast. 56 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:23,439 And I have to ask you personally what you're doing 57 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:28,560 to preserve your past, because we all have experienced things 58 00:03:28,599 --> 00:03:31,759 that others may have, but it wasn't through your eyes, 59 00:03:32,159 --> 00:03:35,039 and it wasn't through your steps. We may have had 60 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:38,599 the same things happen, but the way that we made 61 00:03:38,639 --> 00:03:42,360 our way through that storm or into that victory two 62 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:47,599 completely different things. Two snowflakes, so I ask just one time. 63 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:52,000 I would love to challenge you for seven days, take 64 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:58,000 something and write something about you. It has to be 65 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:02,479 all about you. It is not selfish. And maybe at 66 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:05,800 the top of the page put dear future reader and 67 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:08,960 then date it. I'm Marow and that's the daily mess.