As Norton Juster mused in his introduction to “The Phantom Tollbooth;”

Like most of the good things that have happened in my life, the Phantom Tollbooth was written when I was trying to avoid doing something else, something I was supposed to do. Some people are like that. I’m one of them.

Norton Juster

Are you one of those people? I certainly am. I have a pile of things I have to do right now; but it is most often in these moments of necessities that I feel most creative. That I just have to write or create. Anything but the monotonous obligations that I’m required to fulfill. And if I shove this aside again, the idea is lost forever.

Is this the life of the creative? A little messy, always late, terribly unorganized, but alive inside with ideas? With words waiting to be let free?

If this is truly the life I am created to live, then I embrace it. Burden or gift, I love to write. I come alive when molding these words. I accept it, the messy crazy chaos of it all. I do feel, however, that it makes it hard to be known. I can bare my soul on a piece of paper, but I cannot make small talk to save my soul. People assume I am just quiet and don’t know how to talk to me I suppose. But if I can make just one person think differently about their situation, if I can just encourage one weary soul, if I can simply point one soul towards God; then it will all be worth it.