Dark Bless, you tinfile Vincent's. Welcome to the Blind By Podcast.

Thank you for the wonderful feedback from last week's podcast. Which was about self-acceptance.

Go back and listen to what if you haven't heard it. I enjoyed making it.

It was cathartic. I enjoy any, I like doing the mental health podcast because it's not

just for you. It's for me as well. There's a catharsis in it. I enter an introspective

form of flow. I suppose it's a bit like journaling. It's a bit like journaling except in

audio form. I've been enjoying the beautiful weather. There's a bit of a heat wave which

is nice and much needed heat wave. I'm trying to, I'm trying to rise. I'm trying to write

a notebook at the moment. I'm trying to write a new collection of short stories. And it's

very difficult. It's very difficult to join the pandemic for two reasons.

Number one, mainly my brain isn't receiving the spontaneity of human conversation as

a result of the pandemic. If, if you're someone now who's been working and communicating

with people, it might be different for you, but for me, I haven't. In the past year, I've

probably had four unplanned conversations, spontaneous unplanned conversations, but

which I mean bumping into someone and saying, hello, what's the crack? And then having a conversation

and then moving on. I've probably had four of them in the past year and that might even

be liberal. And of those three or four spontaneous conversations, they're not fully authentic

because those conversations occurred through the lens of the pandemic. So you're aware

the anxiety of social distancing is there. And if you meet someone you haven't spoken

to an ages right now and you have a chance, you're probably going to chat about something

that's somehow related to the pandemic. So it's not fully authentic and spontaneous.

And I suppose I took it for granted, but I really need that stuff in order to be creative.

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