“I’ve decided you should start blogging.”
The interesting thing about these six words is not that someone said them to me, but when he said them.
I’ve recently become quite addicted to a friend’s fascinating journey and corresponding blog, and was reading with my usual rapt excitement yesterday morning. Somewhere along the line I thought to myself, “Self,” I thought “you should start a blog,” to which I promptly responded, “yeah right.” Not an unusual conversation to have, as I often come up with brilliant ideas only to have them quickly whisked away by that part of myself that is determined not to let me be brilliant. This blogging idea, however, I managed to keep around for a little while. I have absentmindedly considered blogging in the past, but the thought never got very far. Considering my ongoing struggle to let the writer inside of me out (more on this in the future, hopefully), I started thinking yesterday morning that a little practice in the blogosphere just might not hurt. But then, of course, my anti-brilliance got wind of this and left me with the ever-thought-squashing “yeah right.”
Fast forward a few hours. I am waiting for a friend at a coffee shop and reading a book about a woman’s spiritual journey to find herself. All of a sudden, my phone buzzes. I open it to see a text from my boyfriend, and that text says (you guessed it!), “I’ve decided you should start blogging.” Now, I’m a universe-sends-messages kind of girl. And although I often have my head too far up my own ass to actually hear those messages, this one just seemed too obvious to ignore. Here I am, reading a story filled with divine inspiration about the struggle to follow your inner Truth, and receive a message telling me to do the very thing I was mulling over just hours earlier. If that’s not a telegram straight from the cosmos, then I just don’t know what is.
So, like the good type-A girl that I am, I spent the day today reading about blogging. Oh yes, I read everything I could find. I researched how to make your blog the Best Blog Ever, and which blog site is the Best Blog Site Ever, and how to make yourself the Best Blogger Ever. It was, of course, completely fascinating research (mmm hmmm), from which I learned one thing: my anti-brilliance is one cunning little bastard. I could, if I wanted to, probably spend weeks and weeks reading about blogging and tweaking my private little blog site and reading other people’s blogs, until I got so worn out from all the research that I never wanted to have anything to do with blogging again Ever. If I ignore the initial “yeah right,” there is always another way around it. It seems as though in this particular situation, that way is through never-ending spine-tingling internet research.
So, with a big fat slap-in-the-face to that evil little gremlin inside of me, I said to myself, “Self – why don’t you just write something!”
And here I am.
