You know you’re hard up for interesting things to blog about when your brain starts fabricating things in your sleep to write about. Problem is, when you wake up you realize none of it was real and half of it doesn’t make sense anyways. But if you were thinking “I’ll blog about this in the morning” while asleep, you know you’ve been thinking about blogging too much.
I was once good or at least decent at writing. That was back in my late teens / early 20s, when instant messaging wasn’t what it is today, and when I would either be writing analytical essays for school, writing lengthy e-mails to friends (I used to love e-mail… now I’m lucky if I respond to them), or writing letters/e-mails home from Korea. Writing was always thoughtful and I seemed to be able to organize my thoughts more easily and naturally.
I think I subscribe to my friend Schmidt’s theory that you get dumber as you get older. It honestly takes a lot more mental energy these days to form a well thought out analysis than it took 7-8 years ago, and it’s a task I’m not often up to anymore. Blog entries are often spontaneous and hence not very well thought out and poorly written. It also seems like logging on to create an entry is an instant mental block– I can’t remember anything I wanted to write about within the previous hours.
Maybe part of it is that for the last few years my studies have been focused mainly in the right-brain area (creative). It’s not like I spent 14 years focusing on left brain or anything, heh. I still think about things and analyze them in my head, but I’ve just become less and less adept at expressing those ideas or thoughts, and so I refrain from attempting to write about them.
Another problem, as you can already see in this post, is that when I do start writing I often tend to ramble on and on about nothing, I go on too long.
So I leave you with this thought for the day:
I like orange Hi-C.
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mike, i know exactly what you mean. but i do love writing. i see the blog as an opportunity to write as little or as much as i want about whatever i want. i know it’s not usually my best writing, but sometimes i’ll really make a point clearly. but, yeah, emails, im, and blog posts… man, grammar and spelling have gone out the window in our culture i’m afraid. we tend to type how we would talk to convey certain vocal inflections, etc. but writing is usually more formal and calculated. interesting phenenon this internet.
on another note, what is the pic?
thanks. I think that content-wise my blog is pretty trivial, but it’s mine, so I guess it doesn’t matter how pointless my posts are, hehe.
The pic– it’s nothing special. Just a pic I took Sunday at my sister’s condo. Looks a bit over-exposed, but I love the greens of spring and summer.
Content. It’s relative. My friends and family like reading about me. People I don’t know like reading about other stuff. I like writing about everything and sometimes nothing at all because I started the dang thing as an excuse to take pictures. Like you said though, it’s my site so screw everyone else. 🙂
Counter thought – Better than that is Grape Fanta, but don’t drink it from the can. It has to be poured over ice in a glass cup. That is what I like.
grape hwanta? It has been ages since I had that. I happened to be drinking orange hi-c at the moment (a less acidic, non-carbonated alternative to orange juice with breakfast, heh)… though right now a purple cow is sounding pretty good.
Yes, more pictures are in order. Stay tuned…