I miss writing
by Shang Lee
It has been a while since I last wrote anything creative. Most of my writings have been dull unexciting pieces of junk that passed as compliant writing at work. BOOOORING!!! I can’t imagine writing any more of that without some other outlet. I’m not saying I’m a very creative person, but I was once told that if you don’t use any part of your brain for any period of time, that part will deteriorate. I guess if conventional wisdom still holds true i.e. that the right brain controls creativity, my right brain must be shrinking to the size of a peanut (assuming it was larger than a peanut previously). See what I mean by compliant writing? Even the size of my peanut has a disclaimer.
How can someone actually miss writing? It’s only one of the many actions that can be performed anytime, any day. There are tonnes of other daily actions that can be done, limited only by your imagination. But why miss writing? Something must be bottling up inside. Something that needs to be released. But what?
It’s that time of the year again – performance appraisal. I haven’t been through that in a while. For the past year since I last started my job, I haven’t given that much thought. No thought = no record. I haven’t been keeping record of my performance, just enjoying the work I do. I suppose someone must be keeping track of my work. I guess I will find out soon. How am I suppose to enjoy work now? Now that I know I’m going to be measured every step I take, every fart I make?
My mum is a boss. She works in her very own company. And they do appraisals as well. So when I asked how does she like the appraisals, my mum gave me the most honest answer I’ve heard of so far – it’s just a waste of time, it’s obvious who’s performing and who’s not. My kudos to that statement. I suppose for bigger companies, that might be difficult, but I’m sure at least 1 person will know what the other does. So why appraise anyway?
I guess one good thing about the appraisal is that it triggers my creative juices again. I have to be creative to make the seemingly trivial tasks seem appropriate, useful even, and makes a difference to the value I add to the company. It was tough at first, but once the lingo gets going, it’s quite difficult to stop. I talked about when my communication was good, when I improved the security of our files, when I organised the workflow, when I was the key person developing the campaign etc. Now all I have to know is – will my boss see through the smoke screen? It was a good smoke nonetheless…
To be continued…
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