Solitude

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert Einstein


Most of us have very busy lives. We even pride ourselves on how busy our lives are because it makes us feel that we are getting a lot of things done. But none of these things bring us any real satisfaction. Some of us feel like we spend our whole lives putting out fires and never have time for what we'd really like to do. There is always some emergency to take care of. There is always something someone else needs; which seems more important than our own needs. We never seem to have enough time for ourselves.

We live in a world where taking action is highly prized. People who sit around are considered lazy unproductive couch potatos. We seem to have forgotten that in order for our actions to produce satisfactory results, we need to take the time to sit and think about what we want to acheive and how best to acheive those results. Instead we run around like a chicken with it's head cut off. Since we haven't thought out what we want, we spend our time dealing with other people's emergencies that don't help us get anywhere we want to go.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. We need time to ourselves to think about what we want to create in our lives. We need time to determine how things can be different and better in our lives and what needs to happen in order to make it so. Time spent daydreaming by yourself is much more productive than taking aimless action that deals with everyone else's needs except your own. The creative mind needs peace and quiet. It needs no distractions. It needs to be left to its own devices. When you give it this, for even short periods if consistently , it will reward you handsomely.