I like the freedom that comes with lowered expectations.
Have fun writing, because it enhances both the writer's and reader's experience.
Most good essays are conversations with yourself - not just your decided thoughts but your dilemmas.
The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.
I've had an enduring appreciation of psychology.
Until people see poetry as springing from all of life, they will isolate it in a creativity corner and treat it like a mascot.