On Writing

Turns out what I have read thousands of times on internet is correct. Writing is hard! Or rather the initiation, starting point; is difficult. I have been musing about writing for as long as I can remember. Tried every trick in the book. Journals, bullet journal, notes, blogs everything . I thought having a new tool or a new process will help me write . But nothing helps, nothing can help, if I don’t write. Gosh it’s hard. Penning your thoughts is hard. Making sense of all those floating thoughts in my head is hard.

Like most people on Internet today, I am a consumer. Consumer of thoughts, articles, videos, DIYs. Basically any content that can be consumed anywhere. On the potty, while working on a work project, while walking.. So whenever my brain itched , I consumed. There’s nothing wrong with consumption . We live in an ever connected world, which we designed purposefully to connect one another. There ought be consumption of ideas which can help us not reinvent the wheel every time and save hours or even weeks sometimes.

But there has been a nagging voice in my head for quite sometime now, what about my thoughts? What about my ideas? What are my ideas? What are my thoughts? What do I make of all these content I read or listen to? I know my brain articulates it internally but it’s jumbled up there. When time comes, I retrieve partial information and try to look up online to find fillers for those gaps.

So I started a blog a month ago with the intention of jotting down my ideas, ranging from current world affairs to tech to food to recipes. Its purely to make sense of my thoughts, better articulate my world view and maybe it can help prevent me going down the rabbit hole of internet each time I want to find “how to do x”. Because I have done x so many times, I should know by now. But alas!

So back to where I started, even though the blog was set up a month ago, I am just finally ready to publish my first post. Because guess what, writing is hard.