God's Gift
Sometimes ideas strike like a slap in the face. That feeling of being inspired can be powerful and being so full of the fizz of creativity, I get carried along.“Why has no-one thought of this brilliant idea before?” I think.
Once the heat of inspiration cools, I tend to get a clearer picture of how good the idea really is. An idea can seem brilliant if I’m getting that bubbly, excited feeling, but as I tell it to someone else, I realize that it was only so exciting because it set off all kinds of associations in my head that aren’t there in anyone else’s head then the whole thing falls flat. This is where bouncing ideas off other people comes in handy, having a cooler head to hand, so to speak.
Of course, that can result in good ideas getting stifled by a too-cool, too-skeptical bounce-ee, so it goes both ways, which is probably why the “divinely” inspired (i.e. people whose ideas feel like they’ve been beamed into the brain) can come up with either bloody brilliant ideas (e.g. William Blake) or unadulterated, unabashed shite (e.g. author’s of poems about the rainbows of God’s love on websites called things like “Every day is a gift”.)
