It starts with one….

Matthew Pye
Jul 27, 2017 · 3 min read

At the beginning of this year, with good intentions, i promised to start creating more content and pushing it out over Social Media. I wanted to do this as i find it helpful from a networking perspective, and also slightly therapeutic, not in a ranty way, it’s just i have a lot to say and if i can say it i feel better, whether anyone listens, responds or not.

Two Medium articles, three Periscope broadcasts, one Facebook Live and about 60 Instagram posts later i ran out of steam. The same myriad of excuses as always, i had work to do which was absorbing my time and my time was better spent doing that then doing this. So i thought….

During my short burst of creativity, at the beginning of 2017, i connected with 2 world class athletes, a bunch of people who work for a company i respect very much, some creative people on Instagram whose work and commentary i find thoughtful and inspiring. If i had continued those relationships could have been cultivated and led to who-knows what, but they didn’t because i couldn’t be bothered to keep it up.

Stopping was a dumb move, whatever the reasons were and how valid the excuses may have been, for someone like me this is an outlet that needs to be used relentlessly in my pursuit for progression. Musing my thoughts, giving my opinions, reaching out and answering questions people have helps me focus on what i have to do. It’s not a waste of time at all.

So now i am going to restart. Why? Chester Bennington.
I liked Linkin Park, i’m not a super fan, but their most popular tunes i do like very much. For some reason his untimely death jolted me. I don’t have any explanation as to why. He was a couple years older than me, maybe that’s it…..?

Documenting our life, in my opinion, is important, in the same way as keeping a diary, journal or scrapbook was, back in the day. If you want to do that with teddy bear ears on Snapchat, duck-face selfies on Instagram or meandering posts on Medium then go do it.

I really think that most people want to do this, but they won’t as they don’t really think that they have something interesting or inspiring to say or they worry what other people will think of them. Not many of us really know what our true potential is, we have to stretch right out of the comfort zone to do so and that’s difficult.

I want to do it, but most of the time i can’t be particularly bothered to do it. Chester Bennington’s suicide made me think that not being bothered to do things that are positive, helpful and good for myself and others is the biggest disservice to my life. And i will try now, with every fibre of my being, to always do the right thing and not use ‘not being bothered’ as a reason not to do anything from now on.

January was a false start, this start will be kept up and the cadence of production will grow.

Respond as you see fit.

That’ll be all

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