What’s the Point?

I’m not sure what the point of blogging is. I write something, share it, then a bunch of unknowns read (or don’t read) it and get on with their lives again.

I don’t get paid. I receive almost no direct human feedback. And there’s little chance of it ever becoming a professional company or website etc.

So why write this? Why write anything in fact?

Well, firstly, it’s a practice. Paying for a professional (and rather sexy, I might add) website such as this one gives the perfect excuse, and motivation, to write daily. So it’s much less about what I write, and more about simply ‘showing up’ to do it.

Secondly, I like to feel heard.

There it is... I said it!

A blog is a bit like saying: look at me, I also exist... I also have a voice and some ideas to share with the world.

For better or for worse, it’s true. Speaking out, even if only in simple written form, is a bold act of self-expression. It could be a hundred, or just one, that ends up reading it. But it doesn’t matter. The possibility to touch and be touched is there. Hope for connection. For new relationships. New pathways. New worlds to occupy. For myself and others.

And hope is everything, is it not?

It seems to me that spiritual poverty is the only true suffering there is; that sinking feeling of nothing ever changing – no direction forwards, sideways or otherwise. That’s the worst. Trust me. I’ve been there. Too many times to count.

That’s why I throw arrows to the sky (or fishing rods into the vast ocean of the internet), not caring where, or if, they land.

It’s the humble act of trying that counts.

Nothing else.

There’s that great question: what would you do with your time, even if you knew 100% that it would fail?

That’s blogging for me, it seems. And podcasting also for that matter...

What would your life, and daily schedule, look like if you honestly answered that question every day? 

Might you perform more pointless acts? Probably.

Might it take you somewhere magical? Some place completely unexpected? Maybe.

There’s only one way to find out…

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