there are no rules

The human brain has 60,000 thoughts every day.

That’s 60,000 different ideas, bouncing around our heads, every single day.

It’s a lot to handle…

Since I was a child, one of my favourite ways of trying to handle all these different ideas, has been making videos.

I’ve still got old videos of me doing kung fu, telling stories, doing magic tricks and telling poems…

Film has always been important to me.

I’ve also always loved writing.

I’ve written countless short stories, and I’ve got notebooks filled with poems. Some of my work is now online, most of it isn’t.

Then, a bit later on in life, these 60,000 daily ideas began leading me towards my next creative love…

Music.

I spent months travelling around Europe, playing on the streets and in the bars, living off the money that music made me… I loved it.

But during that time, I forgot how much I loved to make films and write stories as well, all I did was music.

When I eventually realised that music wasn’t paying the bills as much as I’d hoped, I then swivelled into business and spent the next two years using that as my next creative output, eld by my 60,000 daily thoughts.

I ran a marketing agency for a while and it was fun while it lasted, it paid the bills and kept me busy, but I fell out of love with it pretty quickly.

After a year of running the agency, I shut it down and began running around in circles, unsure of what to create next.

See what I’ve realised is that I just love to create…

I love to create in all sorts of different forms whether it’s written or visual or musical or financial, and I haven’t yet found the one medium that I love the most.

It’s been a battle for me…

There’s one part of me that knows I should just pick one thing and stick to it if I want to see any sort of success in the long term, and there’s another part of me that knows I don’t have to do that.

It knows that as long as I continue creating something and continue putting these 60,000 daily ideas to good use, it doesn’t matter what medium I use, I’ll be happy and everything else will just work out.

See, what I’ve come to realise is that there are no rules, and the only thing I have to do is die so I might as well make up my own rules.

I’m no longer trying to be a filmmaker, or a writer, or a musician, or an athlete, or a businessman.

I’m just trying to be a human.

The only thing I have to do is die.

The only thing I want to do, is create.

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have a great day,

louis

cover art by @monika.kemzuraite