fear of the blank canvas

“Where do I begin…”

Ain’t that the question in your head when you’re staring at a blank piece of paper? Society has taught you that you start on the top left corner and work your way to the right and downwards… but what if, just what if you go against what society says?

“Will it be socially acceptable if I start in the center with red font, bold and italicized…”

Reality is, who cares? Wait wait wait. You like to think that nobody really cares, but you seem to care a whole lot more than people ever will. You care about what people will think of your work. You care about what they will say about your work. You may not show it, but its the very thought that keeps circling in your head. But if that thought keeps circling around much longer, you will soon go from HAVING a fear OF the blank canvas, to PROJECTING your fear ON the blank canvas.

“What does that even mean…”

It means, you will keep that blank canvas, BLANK (untouched, unused, unfilled, unmarked, uncompleted) You will never project who YOU are on that canvas. You will give into your fear of what people might be thinking of you and instead pass on the opportunity to show the world who you are. Reality is, there’s no such thing as a fear of a blank canvas. Its simply the fear of what you think the others might be thinking. In which case you are wrong. Since you have no work to show, how will their brains even have the electro-chemical reactions to form a thought? Have you even thought about that? Unless you give them something to look at, they’re only going to be staring at a blank canvas.