To write.
I ask myself, “Why to write, why now, what about, what for?”
For a long time, I debated writing a public blog. I have always been a writer and I have my private blog for ten years now, I am also a strong believer in expressing through the writing medium. At the same time, I have been a very private person, mostly it’s hard for me to talk about my thoughts openly. I also just did not think I could write anything new and add additional value to my readers. Until now.
Alright, I get it. You did not want to write publicly. And now you want to, like many others out there, nothing special. Can we move on?
During one of my recent critical thinking sessions, I acknowledged how much of my time is spent daily on reading blogs and articles written by other people. It’s about one hour on average every day. I spend this time, consciously, reading about specific topics like tech, art, mind, human body, etc, learning some completely new things, forming perspectives, find thoughts that align well with my evolving life-view and use these to take action and add value to my own life. I also often witness myself using these ideas and thoughts, even though half-formed, passively validating with friends and family as if these ideas were mine. Eventually, some of these ideas become my opinions. Even though this information did not originate from my observations of the world, as far as I cultivate a system which can sieve information through my context, cleanse by relevance, welcome newness and retain the ability to map the information to action, I was open to reading blogs and not restrict myself to the more traditional sources like newspapers, published journals, papers, books, etc.
[Brevity alert]Okay, I see you want to be careful about where you get your information from, how are you going to take care of it in your writing?
- I will hold myself to a high reference of honesty in what I write. I like things which have settled energies around me, my writing will be no different. If my thoughts are half-baked yet, I will hold off until I have explored it fairly well.
- I will not think on behalf of my readers. My writing might not be perfect. I will express and write what I know as my truths and the readers can take what they think is valuable and leave the rest. I will not be over-critical of myself.
Don’t worry, your readers can take care of that for you.
So, what will you write about?
I will write what I enjoy thinking about and while I don’t exactly know what all I might cover, here are the rough strokes:
- Critical Thinking
- Mind Matter
- Technology, System Software
- Role of Art in Human Life
- Work, Willingness and Knowledge
- Conversations, Solitude, and Community
I see value in looking at simple things from different angles, all in the pursuit of — a potential corollary, applicability to other areas of life, an affirmation of a theory currently undergoing my mental test or just to discover a new truth which could lead to more frontiers of knowledge.
How regularly will you write?
I plan to at least write one article every week. I am a person of habits and consistency is a valued quality for me. I make notes of provoking thoughts daily as and when they occur, but I will formally convert them to a piece of writing, hopefully, once a week.
Hopefully, you will enjoy reading about them!
We’ll see about that!
