I enjoy writing. I mostly write freehand, Morning Pages style (I'm a lefty). I've been doing it for years. I have 10+ Moleskine notebooks filled up with a complete brain dump of my thoughts. I have never gone back to read any of them. I probably will some day, but for now, that's not the point of why I journal. Journaling is super therapeutic for me and now that I'm so used to it in a real journal, I barely think about writing online. Plus, I like how it gives me some time away from the screen. But here we are, on a screen, completely contradicting myself. I actually love when I catch myself being contradictory in my behaviours. It reminds me of this excerpt from the Walt Whitman poem, Song to Myself:
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes)
Ah, nothing like the genius of Walt Whitman to bail me out. Anyway, I'm writing this because I've decided I'm going to start a blog. Not just any blog though. This blog will only be 1 post long. That's it. It's not about anything other than the blog being just this 1 post. It's the only way I got myself to commit to writing this. Because now there are no expectations. I don't have to think up the different topics I want to write about. I don't have to create 'Content Pillars' or stick to a cadence of releasing X posts per X days without feeling like a complete failure. I won't feel like I'm taking too much on my plate either. I'm just writing for the fun of it and I genuinely won't be disappointed if I don't write another post. I mean, I can't write another post. I'd have to change the name of the blog. Ah, I love having no pressure at all. I mean if I were to actually write about things I enjoy here's what I would write about (purposefully being non-committal):
Inner world stuff including meditation and Internal Family Systems
Outer world stuff including entrepreneurship, relationships, health, farming, and food
And maybe some existential stuff like why the fuck are we here?
Well, that's it for this 1 post blog. Thanks for reading. I hope you didn't like it because I have zero intention to write another post.
Love, Nima