Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged,
and here we are. I am so grateful that somehow,
some way, your computer or your smartphone found this place,
right here, where you and I can just have a conversation.
I wish there was a way that I could hear
your voice, your reaction, your emotions, your pitch, your volume,
your tone. But if you don't mind, I just want
to share a thought. I call this the daily mess
because I'm a daily writer, and as a daily writer,
I find myself to be a silent wolf. I'm that
animal that sits beneath the brush of a tree and
I look at life. I take a lot of notes,
and it's kind of crazy, many many, many times. But
then someone will say, you know, I was just thinking
about that the other day. This is the daily mess.
I'm extremely guilty of muttering these words every morning. It
all happens way too fast. That's my reaction to the
arrival of yet another work day. My average workday is
anywhere between ten to fifteen hours. That's what I personally
expect to get out of me. But it's by choice.
It's personal expectations and ambitions that keep me in the
game of trying to gain Now when compared to the
amount of hours I sleep, which is between seven to
eight hours, the reality is it all happens way too fast.
My parents worked late into their seventies. They never saw
age as being a barrier. Then my father's body began
to break down. The most simple things became tougher for
him to do. The goal is to meet face to
face with the odds of being different. Sadly, there'll come
a time when every single one of us are going
to have a voice that has to make a choice
and it's really not going to matter, which is every
bit the reason why I write and why I'm extremely
grateful for every day that is present. I celebrate Christmas
every day. I do, and it's because on July twenty first,
two thousand and nine, I was blessed with a heart attack,
an eye opener. But I've been a daily writer since
July of nineteen ninety four, and I'll bet you somewhere
between July of nineteen ninety four and July of two
thousand and nine I decided I was going to celebrate
Christmas every day, because every day is a gift. It's
just that it was enhanced and empowered on the heart
attack day, or as I call it, my rebirthday. But
maybe if we go back to the nineteen seventies when
I was baptized with my mother in church, maybe that's
when I started celebrating Christmas every single day. But it
took all this time to put it in writing. It's
all happening way too fast. They say, we can remember
all all the way back to when we were three
years old. I do have those memories. Nine atoms in Billings, Montana,
a white little duplex, nowhere near a park, but Riverside
Junior High School, which I went to school at, was
just down the road. See, it's all happening too fast.
And I have to ask you personally what you're doing
to preserve your past, because we all have experienced things
that others may have, but it wasn't through your eyes,
and it wasn't through your steps. We may have had
the same things happen, but the way that we made
our way through that storm or into that victory two
completely different things. Two snowflakes, so I ask just one time.
I would love to challenge you for seven days, take
something and write something about you. It has to be
all about you. It is not selfish. And maybe at
the top of the page put dear future reader and
then date it. I'm Marow and that's the daily mess.