Ennui
I think I'm going through a bout of this at the moment. Every time I start a blog entry or start composing a clever reply to some post in one of the forums I visit, I think "What's the point?" or "who cares?". I then delete what I have already written thinking there's no point to writing half an answer.
I'm making a serious creative effort and it's either not going to be read or it's going to be skimmed over with the other posts in the thread. Besides I'm not ever going to write anything that changes the world.
I'm not Karl Marx coming up with some great new political theory and I'm not Albert Einstein with a some great world changing scientific statement, that I thought up, when I was bored one day. I'm just one of the ordinary 6 billion people who has done little of merit and nobody cares what I think.
Yes, I know there is more to blogging than writing stuff just so other people will read it. It is like the mighty tree falling over in the forest, yes it is impressive as it crashes to the ground, but if there is nobody there to watch, it will have little impact on the rest of the world.
There is nobody to blame either. Everyone is on information overload, people simply don't have the time to ponder everything written by people like myself on the net.
I'm making a serious creative effort and it's either not going to be read or it's going to be skimmed over with the other posts in the thread. Besides I'm not ever going to write anything that changes the world.
I'm not Karl Marx coming up with some great new political theory and I'm not Albert Einstein with a some great world changing scientific statement, that I thought up, when I was bored one day. I'm just one of the ordinary 6 billion people who has done little of merit and nobody cares what I think.
Yes, I know there is more to blogging than writing stuff just so other people will read it. It is like the mighty tree falling over in the forest, yes it is impressive as it crashes to the ground, but if there is nobody there to watch, it will have little impact on the rest of the world.
There is nobody to blame either. Everyone is on information overload, people simply don't have the time to ponder everything written by people like myself on the net.
posted by soup_dragon at 10:26 am
2 Comments:
If you write one thing and someone reads it then you have changed their life. Their life is different from before they read your blog, however imperceptibly.
Anyway you shouldn't be blogging for other people. You should blog for yourself and if other people read it and like what they read then thats an added bonus. Blogging is its own reward.
Take the story I've started writing in my blog. I'm continuing it not because other people want to know what happens next but because I want to know what happens next.
You never know we might just change the world without realising it.
Thank you for the kind words of encouragement.
You raise some very good points.
Deep down I know I am writing it for myself but I couldn't help thinking - "I already know this/feel this way, so why am I typing it?"
I have managed to recharge my batteries by learning about something new and I shall be back to spreading my memes very soon.
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