Do you ever get spells when your mind races? So fast you can’t keep track of the new thoughts and ideas popping up every second? It’s like being on speed. Take notes, you say. What? I’ve got things scribbled on milk cartons! What I should have is a Dictaphone. Can I use your Dictaphone? No - use your finger like everyone else.
These spells seldom last longer than two or three days, but when they hit they hit like tonne of bricks. Like coconuts raining down out of trees. Did you know more people get killed by falling coconuts each year than sharks? Makes sense - sharks never fall out of trees.
The life-coach-cum-shrink in the family tells me these periods are to be relished, harnessed, made to work. Harness my bollix! I don’t have time - I’m solving equations in my head; I’m writing reams of code; I’m predicting the outcome of seemingly unconnected actions; I’m suddenly understanding concepts I could never get to grips with; I’m developing new methods of doing things. There isn’t time to record all this in any form other than unintelligible scrawls on the nearest thing to hand.
By the time these spells have passed and the brain slips down the gears into the crawler box the nearest things to hand are the furthest. Probably buried under a pile at the recycling centre. Jumping to the next idea I lose interest in the last.
Some I remember or took a proper note of. There are always so many I never know which to follow up with first and more often than not the overwhelming choice leads to confusion and none at all being tackled.
The last day or two my neurons have been in full flight. Chattering away incessantly among themselves like auld wans in a doctor’s waiting room. I’m dropping down off the bell-curve now and, for a change, I seem to have most of my ideas jotted down. That’s one advantage of a full milk carton. But, as usual, I don’t know where to start. Some have the potential to become stunningly insightful posts. Some aren’t be worth posting about never mind reading. Others are none of your business. Sorry, but it’s true.
So bear with me the next few days and we’ll see whether I have this “harness-relish-made to work” nonsense cracked.
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