Koh Tao

So today I realised that I’ve been putting off a lot of important stuff. That life stuff that life is full of:

– Replying to emails
– Replying to Facebook socialisings
– Nurturing blog
– Printing flight confirmation
– Buying conditioner

I suppose you could say I tried to tackle some of these neglects this afternoon when I propped my Kindle against the wall and turned it on with every intention of writing. Something. Anything. Naturally I flicked through the interface’s carousel and opened the non-word processing app, ‘TED’. Not only did I fail at all of the above, I also fell asleep.

When I woke up, I stumbled upon a TED talk by Dave Eggers, which can be found here:

I may have been drawn to his talk because I’m familiar with him as an author, it might have been because I’m fascinated with the way he talks faster than he can think, maybe it’s because he has an impressive beard, whatever it was, I’m thankful for it because it rescued me from slipping into a state of writerly disinterest.

Serious writers probably shouldn’t need a metaphorical kick up the arse to get the pen moving, but when you’re on the other side of the world, and your life is rushing past like rice paddies outside a bus window during a journey from Hue to Hanoi in Vietnam, you begin to misplace some of that writerly passion. And I say ‘you’ rather than ‘I’, because I know I’m not the only person to have strayed away from this chosen path before, and I won’t be the last.

You might also be wondering why the post is titled ‘Koh Tao’. Well it was initially supposed to be chronologically travel related.

I guess it still is, really.