Today is day 14. 14 roughly consecutive - there have been a few 3am the next day posts and accidental two in one day - daily thoughts dumped onto a World Wide Web accessible site. As of today, the views still sit at a whopping total of 1, and that was my own self clicking on the very first post. Not that I’m doing this for views, it’s kinda fun just sending words out into the abyss. It is a bit cathartic, like screaming under water. Again, I didn’t start doing this for the feel-goods or the psychological effect or the “build in public” kick this generation is on. Frankly, I don’t remember what instigated this. For some reason, it just felt like a habit worth building. So much of life outside of work is spent consuming information, why not start contributing by own thoughts. From my own personal experience I’ve noticed two things: first, the quality of ideas coming from my generation are not earth shattering; two, the cause of this is either a lack of ideas in the first place or the inability to communicate it, ironic for the “social” age we occupy. The optimist in me hopes in the latter cause. My own greatest struggle is conveying the images and systems in my head into words that can be shared with coworkers, friends, family, etc. I guess this method of dumping words onto the screen is my attempt at getting better through repetition. Granted, I don’t really proof read these things, so grammar is bound to be off and an excessive number of “be” verbs utilized. Also, to the point of grammar, I will intentionally screw it up, breaking a few laws sometimes because the sentence just sounds right in my head. If you don’t like it: one, thanks for taking the time to read my thoughts! For second, go write about it in your own blog - don’t forget to link the offending source - then let me know! I’d be more than happy to give a thorough, grammatically questionable review of your review of my haphazard thoughts.
With that all said, it’s been two weeks apparently. I cannot make promises about the future of this “Daily Thought N” thread, but so long as the neurons fire, random, deeply opinionated, often absurd, rarely coherent, and strangely wonderful thoughts will continue to flow forth from the hallowed depths of my mind.
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