A couple of years after this whole blogging trend has been getting kinda stale, I decided that it was high time for me to begin blogging.
Wait, why? Why should I? There are enough blogs already!
Personal reasons, of course! Firstly, because I miss it. I used to write, and I used to write a lot. But, when I left a certain part of my internets life behind, the writing stopped. Writing gives memories and keeps me smart, so why would I not? Secondly, I believe that I can write interesting and intriguing things. I just need to exercise that to become better at it.
My problem regarding things like this has pretty much always been discipline. I am a procrastinator, and the more time passes, the worse I get. So, today I did something I usually advice against; I imposed a technical solution to a problem not of a technical nature. I actually blocked some sites from my computer. So now, I cannot access Facebook, Hacker News, Twitter, imgur or 4chan. They are redirected to a black hole.
I chose to still be able to access them from my phone, which means I can still procrastinate while I’m on the move, aka on the commuter trains. I am just so fed up by the fact that I can sum up most of my days with “I spent the day refreshing websites hoping that something that could change my life would pop up. It did not.”
I quickly noted that I had some kind of urge to check some of them out. Just a quick check. The realization of this saddened me and gave me a very late insight into how compulsively I am a slave to the content of the internets. It’s like those people that are addicted to MMORPGS, but tragic in a different way. It’s time to break free of that. I literally have a thousand better things to do!
Oh, and worth noting is that I will be available as usual on the Facebook chat. I’m cutting my procrastination, not my connections with my friends.
So, I will try to regularly write about stuff that intrigues, perplexes and/or amazes me. That means that I will write of thoughts and ideas, of actual adventures, of nerdy shit I do with my computer, and maybe (just maybe) the occasional piece of creative writing.
So, if this just turns out to be one of these blogs that only has the one “I should start blogging! :)” post, remind me that I should be better than that. Also remind me that I should write more cheerful blog posts, since this is a pretty somber start of what is going to be an awesome adventure of writing.
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