I met an interesting person at a wedding just a week ago. He told me that one of the exercises he undertook for some creative/personal development was writing an essay a week. An essay! I don’t know the length of said essays nor the content but the idea of committing to writing an essay a week seems difficult so I applaud him for that discipline.
Then I was suddenly confronted with the next payment I make for this space. It’s not expensive at $25 USD/quarter so it’s not the money that concerns me. It’s the apathy.
When I first started this space I wanted to use to to express myself in ways that might be more difficult in person or to share things that might not be expected from a live audience.
Being a technical person I thought that finding ways of utilizing this space to showcase things I was working on or code that was developed for some of our clients when I was at Applied Research. I’ve never really found the time simply due to the amount of work that we were completing. I never felt a need to share. I think that might have been a mistake. Though we were under NDA, it would be easy enough to abstract the items we were building and provide general information here. I just didn’t find the time nor put this web log near the top of my priorities list.
So the question is where should I take this. Or maybe a better question, should I take this anywhere at all? What does it benefit. I’ve never really shared anything terribly interesting here other than some of my travels with The Wife and the occasional gaming tidbit. If I was to commit to writing something once a week (like the person who was the inspiration for this post) what would it be? How would I start? What would be intellectually honest and allow me to share parts of my life that I want to share? What if… this was the first of a weekly post here that allowed me to be myself and share my ideas with the world? What if…..
The answer to the title of this post is “Something, I’m just not sure what” and I think that’s ok. What I will commit to is one post a week (maybe more) that expresses my ideas or feelings on things that are happening in my world and how I integrate the results of thinking about those things into my personality. We’re always growing, right? We always have an opportunity to be better, right? Right?
I will write one post each week to improve my writing skills, or else I will close this space, give up my domain name, and delete my server.
I won’t commit to writing anything particularly mind blowing but I want to make a substantive effort to writing things that matter. To me at least. If I can do that for a few months I think it might change my mind about some things. And change is a good thing for anyone.