Personal Blogging, With Less Thought

In the past year, I took the time to think about what I want to do, who I am, where my interests are, and what’s important. The thing I learned is no matter what I do, where I am and who I am with, I usually feel better when I write. For work or for fun. Or for pain, really — sometimes writing hurts instead of soothing something immediately, but bleeding on the page (on the screen) is therapeutic as well.

The latest trend — namely, getting back to personal blogging (see Lockhart Steele and Elizabeth Spierce) — was the final drop. Either way, in the words of the Risky Business Tom Cruise…

…I decided to get to writing again. Writing at work. Creating concepts and building ideas with words. I’ll see if this helps me grow professionally. At least that’s what I always think about when I leaf through my favorite Sagmeister and his work notes.

Apart from that, I’ll give this blog (or, rather, my reckless writing) another try. I must admit, I have been reluctant to write because I felt that I might not have anything worthy to say. But I’m tired of waiting for some prominence, some sort of utterly important things to happen or wise thoughts to enter my mind. I’ll write what I can and try to shut up my inner grouch.

So, there will be random posts coming, without any pretence of saying REALLY IMPORTANT STUFF. With any luck, though, they will be appearing more often than before. So, here we go…