There are two things for now, that I can think of. One’s great. The other, sad.

The great thing about ideas is the way they can flap their wings and fly the hell out of the nest that’s inside your head. 

Yes, you have liberated them from your mind, but I feel that it’s your mind that’s truly liberated. Free. Vacant. Open. Ready to be occupied with at least 10 other ideas to take the place of those who are out there in the big bad world, doing their thing.

The sad part?

Well, it is the way we guard them. Like overprotective parents, afraid that someone will take them away from you. Maybe make them their own, and live a good life together that you had planned for them.

And you don’t even pause for a moment to think that when you do that, they are rotting. Not just your ideas, but your grey cells too.

What are you scared of? Someone who gets “inspired” from the idea you have released, and say, wins an award? So what?

What if you don’t have time to think about it, if and when that happens? Why not think from the other side! You will be too busy tinkering with your next batch of ideas. And the next one after that. And the next one.

Take solace from the fact the people who do that need people like you to be inspired from. And without your lot, they are nothing.

We are all borrowing from each other, getting inspiration from stuff around us all the time.

The amazing thing is that the world is always in flux, and you have the ability to always notice something that others would not. And that gives birth to a whole new bunch of ideas, all bubbling with excitement, ready to take off when you allow them to.

Shouldn’t that be the real victory you savour?