Tadd Mencer

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I’m feeling mighty tired lately and it isn’t all physical.

Life doesn’t always go the way you plan – usually it’s completely different. Honestly I pictured myself being in a totally different place by time I was 30. I thought I’d be making the big bucks doing things I love, maybe even being the owner of my own company. I thought I’d be doing some good things for God because I had the means.

Instead I continue to feel like I’m doomed … well, this. Entry level life. I’m pretty much career wise in the same place I was years ago. My skills have improved, but that’s it. I’m no longer playing music or doing a lot of random artwork.

I need to look at things I do have that I never took into consideration. A loving wife (well, yes I did take this in thought), two awesome kids, friends and my church family. I’ve been blessed in many ways I didn’t foresee.

So what am I complaining about?

It’s more of an observation really. It’s a three steps forward and four steps back in life that tires me out. Sucker punches.

In the end I just want to roll over and go back to sleep for a few weeks. Ignoring everything around me.

I can do that, right?

A while ago I posted about being frustrated and my dreams about having my own design studio where I can work on only the stuff I enjoy doing like random artwork and design projects. JeremyOLED over at Superluminal encouraged me and I have recently decided to take steps toward the future.

Studio646 will be changing it’s gears from service oriented to content. Meaning the I won’t be focused on getting design work via Studio646 but doing things like making posters and pictures that you can purchase. I’ve yet to decide how to offer these works whether CafePress or what, but it’s my start to push this wish for my own studio.

One of the things I’ll be showcasing at S646 is my projects such as Deadland Chronicles. I also hope to do a novel published on a blog – blogel? Novog? Whatever it would be called. I have a few stories that, once Deadland is scripted, I’ll be penning out and releasing chapters at a time. Free to read.

See, I want to inspire and encourage. I want to rub someone’s imagination and make them day dream about worlds or ‘what ifs’. While Deadland and my stories are going to (hopefully) be entertaining, I also went them to make people think about the world – THEIR world – differently.

So, step one is underway. Change my direction.

Maybe, prayerfully and hopefully, I can have my own personal studio in the near future with computers for design and writing and music … It’s not just a dream. It’s an aspiration.

"Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up."
Samuel Smiles