The question “What makes me tick?”, seemed a simple one at first, as we were just told to write about our hobbies and passions which I found illogical as this was meant to be a creative task. After some deeper thought and deliberation the idea hurtled toward me! It sent me into an uncontrollable spin, head first, down an endless well of alien self reflection. I have never pondered about the question of what makes me tick. I had to contemplate me, down to my core and all its numerous implications. It has certainly been an unorthodox road of adolescent self discovery. Just me in my room, encased in four walls, entombed in my thoughts, with a pencil in my hand and a weight on my head.
Before I knew it I was in deep, deeper than I first thought possible. I realised this as I was day dreaming, in my mind palace, in the midst of a house party. When my mind initially started working its gears and cogs pondering this question I didn’t know where to go mentally, until I had an epiphany.
The thought of a clock in its simplest form made everything easier to understand because even though humans are infinitely more complicated than clocks we still have many similarities in how we both produce our ticks. Neither a clock nor a human can produce their tick without the necessary components and those very same components could not work without the stimulation of energy, and then it dawned on me, Before answering the question what makes me tick i have to know what my ticks are so what is my tick?
What are my defining qualities? What does my hand move to the noise of? There isn’t one single product like the movement of a hand or the changing of a number, humans are complicated. We do have what you could call components and a clear source of energy but answering what your tick is isn’t such a simple task. I suppose you could say my tick is the production of creativity, concepts and connections which enable me create limitless possibilities, the