A momentary lapse of reason
So, about that blog I used to write…
So, almost five months, innit? Let’s see:
Quick recap of my life:
- Only walked 40 miles of 54. Got silver medal. Cried myself softly to sleep.
- Bought myself a guitar, found out that old age hasn’t granted me superhuman finger strength or lightning-fast speed. Cried myself softly to sleep.
- Found out that a $1,000 camera does not grant me the ability to take good pictures. Cried myself softly to sleep.
- Watched Superbad, loved it. Found out it came out in Spain dubbed in spanish, not in english. Cried myself softly to sleep.
- Destroyed computer while Frankensteining it with a new CPU and a new hard drive. Cried my-You know the drill by now.
The truth is, I was going through a dry spell. Everything I wrote read stupid. I could easily blame it on writer’s block, but I was writing. I just wasn’t writing anything that satisfied me. I think this had less to do with the quality of my writing than with a weird phase in my life. Ironically, I believe it both starts and ends with women: first, when a friend told me that she had stopped updating her blog because she felt she wasn’t contributing anything to the grand scheme of things. I mean, if you’re writing for a blog, do you have to worry about “The Big Picture”? Well, apparently, you do. I did, at least. It made sense: Why? If you couldn’t answer that question, what are you writing for? I didn’t know, and I let me convince myself that I should stop until I did.
It ends with another friend: she mentioned that I had stopped updating my site, and I told her that I just hadn’t felt like writing, to which she replied “Yeah, I know the feeling. When you get older, you stop doing some things because you don’t feel like it anymore”.
So I had stopped writing because I was getting old?
Fuck no.
Fuck no.
I’m back.
Enjoy.
j_major wrote:
that’s good news. l think like most bloggers, l write to take something out of my system. Sometimes it doesn’t work and sometimes you just don’t have anything to take out, then you just don’t post.
Posted 31 Oct 2007 at 5:41 am ¶
wale wrote:
finalmente!
Posted 05 Nov 2007 at 2:18 am ¶
Luis wrote:
El siguiente viaje tiene que ser por aca. Visita, chucha. Te caigo en el 2008 porsiaca.
Posted 07 Nov 2007 at 9:28 am ¶
Chito wrote:
Good to have you back my old friend. I know all about dry spells. My life was practically one. And if you think not writing for few months is bad, I haven’t written in my blog for more than a year. Now that’s a waste of (inster personal thought). Since you’re back and I don’t have a job a the moment, guess I’ll write something soon. Won’t promisse anything though.
Posted 10 Nov 2007 at 1:25 am ¶