I have absolutely nothing to blog about today.
Not a thing. Nada. Zilch. I sat down in front of my laptop, stared at the screen for a bit, drank a cup of tea, stared at the screen some more, and then admitted the obvious. No inspiration. Not a single crumb of content. But here we are. You’re reading this. I’m typing this. We’re both involved now, so let’s make the best of it.
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Why am I doing this to myself, you might ask? Why not just skip a day? Have a nap. Watch a rerun of Peep Show and call it a day. Well, it’s because I promised myself I’d blog every single day. Every. Single. Day.
Now I know what you’re thinking. “Sean, you could just start again tomorrow. No big deal.” And to that I say, you clearly don’t know me very well. I am not a casual, ‘take-it-as-it-comes’ kind of guy. I am very much an all or nothing sort. Moderation? I don’t know her.
If I skip one day, chances are I’ll skip a few more. Then before I know it, I’m six months deep into not writing anything and pretending I’m just “recharging”. It has happened before and you’ll know that if you have been hanging around these parts of the web for a while.
So this blog post, this nothing of a post, exists purely out of fear. The fear of letting myself slip. The fear of waking up next week and realising I’ve abandoned the one promise I made to myself that feels doable. I am clinging to the writing wagon with white knuckles.
There’s a bit of this in every part of my life. I go full tilt or not at all. I’m the person who’ll start a new hobby and immediately want to buy all the gear and become a certified expert by Thursday. Or I do nothing. There’s not much in-between. So when I say I’m blogging every day, I’m saying it to keep myself in check and on track.
If you’ve made it this far into this post about absolutely nothing, thank you. Truly. I appreciate every single one of you who tunes in for whatever this daily word splurge is. I hope you’re getting something out of it, even if it’s just the comfort of knowing that someone else out there is also trying to make sense of their own compulsions via the Internet.
See you tomorrow. Same time. Hopefully with a topic.
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