The blog of zero expectations
I love having a blog, and I love typing random notes that I can later look back on and remember the ideas I had. It's a wonderful thing, especially since when I type out full posts, it's almost always at my computer.
There's nothing particularly wrong with my computer or being at it, but the multitude of options that I have at my disposal every time for the entire duration of use of it makes it extremely difficult for me to form a coherent thought, let alone collect multiple of them into an idea. As a matter of fact, as I write this, I'm tending to get one sentence out and immediately become distracted; write a sentence, get distracted, come back, write another sentence, rinse and repeat. That's the beauty of it, though. Write with intent, write at the pace which works for you, and write about whatever you'd like; no feed of algorithmically sorted time wasters, no drama, no ads, nothing but you and a digital canvas. You can create however you choose to.
Even though I struggle to write consistently, especially where it concerns topics that aren't just meta-analyses of writing, life et tout, I don't feel bogged down by that fact. I just write.
I write, and write, and write.
This blog has no expectations of me, and in a world of rampant stimulation, that's exactly what I needed.
Even though it can, at times, be extremely difficult to articulate a full article at my computer, there's a certain charm to slowly stitching together the thoughts of multiple days into one, originally more focused post. In a way, it gives me a more holistic view of my thoughts on any given topic. There's always an upside to these things, even those that seem like a net negative.
That said, since I'm feeling the juices, I'm going to work on a less meta article; should I continue my ramblings on this, it'll be a different post.
Thanks for reading, netizen.
==Fuza