Inspiration Isn’t Everywhere. It’s in Your Back Pocket.

Shower? Yeah, this is also why you have the best ideas in the shower

Shajedul Karim
6 min readNov 22, 2020
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One of my friends proudly replied: Inspiration is something that allows us to do something which is out of our comfort zone.

He followed it with an emoji: 😁

I was going to punch him hard on his face, crack open his mouth, break his incisors and give some nice makeups on his face. But I calmed down. He’ll get married in a few days, after five years. I was expecting something better and cooler, from him. He’s a good writer. Anyway, I didn’t calm down. I gave him a digital punch with an emoji: 👊🏻

But when I thought about it for some time — three hours, it made sense. He wasn’t wrong.

Last few days, I wasn’t “inspired” because of stress (maybe?) I tried everything what everyone — the top-writers always say, no matter what:

Creativity comes from being present away from your desk.

So I ran to the supermarket and sat down on the tool, doing nothing, buying nothing, for six hours straight, while getting cursed by the owner, every single minute.

Drawing. Watching movies. Listening to music. Seeing friends. Watching passersby from a cafe. Getting stuck in a traffic…

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Shajedul Karim

My story might not matter but it'll gently touch your interior and remind you how smarter you are. Google forced to include numbers: shajedul.karim.01@gmail.com