Blogging

I had an audacious thought his afternoon. I was walking pass a bookstore when I stopped to think whether there was something that I may need. That wasn't the audacious part but what came after was. I heard that little voice in my head say that I didn't need to read a book, I could write one. I blog don't I? Well fortunately for me, it was just my sense of humour acting up rather than a lack of self - awareness.

I have found blogging therapeutic. So far 12 great sessions of free therapy to counter the effects of living from one task to another. And it is particularly helpful when I can't sleep or fall back to sleep. I am an early riser and waiting for the rest of my family to wake up can be exhausting ironically. Thoughts that have been going in circles need to be dealt with. Focusing on a thought, exploring it and penning it down seems productive or at least tangible. It is there on the screen, saved down, and I even have a photo to go with each posting. I can leave the thought alone because I am done thinking about it. It now has a form and I don't have to wonder what I really thought about it. There is a sense of liberation.

I seem to have far more patience blogging than I have reading. I am somewhat opinionated and reading something I don't agree with works me up. I am too polite to post a comment or drop a note  to the writer whom I do not know and end up with a sense of unfinished business. You would now be thinking, how could anyone be an effective voice in social media if he or she does not read widely. There lies the beauty of tweets.

Those who have read my posts know that I am still trying. I am not as eloquent as I need to be. I am still building stamina for a well thought through exposition in the distant future. You can't put your finger on exactly what this blog focuses on because my posts are as random as my thoughts. But by the time I am done writing this thought down, there would be 13 more posts than when I started. I am starting to write regularly, even if it is not daily. These days I don't only think of writing, I write what I am thinking.