Where My Ideas Come From: Life, Not Inspiration

People often ask me where I get my inspiration from. The question is well meaning, but it is not quite the right one. Inspiration usually belongs to imaginative writing. What I write here is not imaginative. It is grounded in real life. A more accurate question would be where I get my ideas from.

The answer is simple. From life itself.

Ideas come from what I see, experience, and observe, often understood more clearly when looked at in retrospect. Everyday life provides more material than most people realize. The drama that unfolds in workplaces alone is enough to fill a lifetime of writing. Add to that decades of lived experience as a son, husband, father, friend, colleague, brother, and uncle, and the number of possible reflections quickly becomes overwhelming.

Many experiences take days or weeks to fully resolve. The flat tire incident, for example, took nearly two weeks from start to finish. That single event could easily produce several more reflections. Most of them will never be written, not because they lack value, but because time moves on and attention shifts elsewhere.

So, there is no shortage of ideas. Time is the only real limitation. For example, when I started this blog in September 2024, all I could manage were two posts. Nothing happened until May 2025. Then it stopped again in August 2025 and did not resume until January 2026, because, as we say, life happens. So, whenever I get time, I write.

Occasionally, people suggest topics and ask me to write about their ideas. I usually decline, respectfully. Those ideas come from their experiences, not mine. Their perspective may be different. Their context may be different. Writing about it would require imagining details I did not live through, and that is something I do not intend to do.

This blog exists as a record of personal experience and reflection. Nothing more, and nothing less. It is not driven by imagination or external prompts. It is shaped by lived moments, examined thoughtfully, and written when time allows.

That is where the ideas come from. Not inspiration, but life itself.

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