At this moment, I'm still evaluating what to do next here - some of what I have in mind was meant to be used in a different format, the story of which may be soon told. But I think it's testament to some growth in me because in years past I would have just created another new blog for that project alone, toyed with it for a while, then leave it to languish in limbo. It's not like I tried it here, it's not like United States of Mind has gone through two iterations, both long abandoned, and it's not like what came after - this one right here - didn't get put in the backburner as well.
And let me tell you, there were many more blogs, now gladly no longer extant. I think I might have written about how blogging came into my life, but if I'm honest - I never really liked it that much, nor did I ever take it that seriously. It was a fad, at least for me, but one which strangely managed to captivate me. Well, until social media started to become something infinitely more interesting. I had all but given up hope on ever returning to my blogging days - especially because these past few years I started to enjoy the writing process less and less - but here I am, eight months of daily posts in.
One of the reasons why I chose to do this silly exercise was to do something somewhat creative every day. I wanted this to challenge me - and it rarely ever did. I mean, as a kid I dreamed of being a writer - I remember writing crummy Star Wars-type rip offs, featuring the droids P3C0 and D2R2. But as with so much in my life, I'd start it, get discouraged early on, and then leave it all behind. I always lacked the necessary discipline for really becoming a writer, and now I feel like so much time has elapsed that I don't even want to develop them. I see no marked progression in my writings - I feel that I write now very much the same way as I have done in a long while now.
But maybe the writing in and of itself isn't really my forte - maybe I'm more of an ideas guy. I know I can think of some crazy ideas easily; this past years I've been recording a podcast with some buddies of mine, and one type of episode we do on occasion is the 'play date' segment, where we take on our favourite characters and try to come up with some epic stories for them. Those sessions went so well that I found myself loudly wondering to the guys whether or not we should try to create some sort of company dedicated to the development of ideas.
One thing that I might try and do here - which I've already done, in fact, recently - is something I used to do in one of my defunct blogs, which was to write down as much as I could remember from my weird dreams. A sort of diary of dreams, to so speak. There's a funny story about that I might tell later.
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