Short Funny Story: Everyone Should Draw

Everyone should draw because drawing makes life better. That is if you are able to just draw for yourself and not worry about what the piece would look like in an art gallery. We shouldn't all be professional artists, but we should all draw. Drawing for yourself is as relaxing as the first time you ever just popped all the pods on a roll of bubble wrap. Talking to a therapist for the same issues that you could just draw is like popping all the bubble wrap pods with a sewing needle. It might be more precise, but you've definitely wasted a lot of time. 

People are afraid that others might see what they've drawn. But that's not the point of drawing. You draw for yourself for many many years before you ever draw for an intended audience. Instead of coming home and downing a river of booze after a bad day, try drawing the emotions of your terrible day. This might just be a bunch of vicious scribbles on a scrap piece of paper. You might really get into it and may even break a sweat. This is good! You get the misery out of your system without waging war on your liver. If you're like me, your liver would have loved to have surrendered years ago. The war on my liver is like if the battle of the Alamo lasted until everyone involved died of old age, but kept on casually fighting in the meantime. 

I'm not so naive as to think that just because I recommend drawing, that everyone will start doing it. And I can attest to the fact that sometimes it's fun to draw while downing a river of booze. Some people might not even want to draw shapes or anything that looks like something. That's perfectly fine. Automatic drawing can be very cathartic. It's when you don't even look at what you're doing, you just run the pencil over the page as your subconscious demands. It doesn't have to mean anything. And it shouldn't really do anything for you, but somehow it does. Of all the things that people do to feel good, drawing might be the cheapest. Which experience seems more appealing: drawing yourself losing thousands of dollars at the casino, or actually losing thousands of dollars at the casino? One scenario can be laughed off, the other will ruin your credit forever.   

There have been times in my life where the only thing that I would do is draw. I wouldn't work, wouldn't leave the house, barely ate, but usually did drink. During those times I would usually look to drawing to help work myself out of the slump. Some people believe that if you draw yourself doing something on paper that you want to do in real life, then it makes it more likely that you'll do whatever it was. That's probably bullshit but it couldn't hurt. I have definitely drawn myself with angel wings floating on top of a mountain of cash, but the only place you'll find me flying is in  economy seating. 

There is a certain warmth to writing that can be experienced with reading as well. Sometimes it's nice to have something to do with no sound on in the place. Reading in the quiet can be incredibly relaxing. Drawing can be enjoyed quietly or with death metal blaring, it's up to the individual. But I think one should at least try drawing in the still of a quiet room. I don't think humans were ever intended to be in contact with each other as much as we are. Being alone and quiet today is like meditating till you levitated next to a river in the old days. We can always go two steps back towards the never ending merry go round of misery that is daily life, but a little extra time by the river won't kill you. Unless you fall in and can't swim I guess.   

Everyone should draw, and some of us might even be really good at it. You might find that it's just what you've been looking for your entire life. You might find that drawing makes life a little less difficult to cope with. That in and of itself makes it worth a shot. Draw yourself in the nude swimming in a factory of cheese puffs. Draw an oak tree coming to life and bellowing Elvis lyrics with a choir of songbirds. I think if I started drawing right now I would better be able to cope with the fact that I have been cooking with onions so much lately that a jacket that I just put on smells like onions. Do I waste the water and power of washing the jacket? Or do I just convince myself that onions are not that an abrasive of a smell? Probably the latter of the two.  

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