Why I Write

Inspired by Robert Birming’s “Why write“, I thought I would write my own spin-off and say why I do it.

But first some background: Initially, I needed to release some loose premature thoughts. I had a lot to say, but for the longest time, I didn’t know how to do it in a palatable way that someone else would read. At some point, I just decided to not care if anyone reads what I’m writing and just do it. So when I finally had it with toxic and algorithmic social media, I went ahead and threw together my own blog without any form of the toxic feedback like a like, share, reply and follower count. It felt freeing to not care about numbers and appreciate the honest feedback that someone goes out of their way to deliberately share with me1.

For quite a while, I had Bear’s analytics turned on. I don’t remember if I turned them on myself or if they were on by default, anyhow they were there. Recently I disabled those as well because the numbers are not what I’m writing for. I write because I want to share my thoughts and find out how others respond to them. Having someone tell me they find my blog looks nice or that they enjoyed one of my posts means the world to me.

Writing helps me sort through the constant tornado in my head and by putting this tornado to “paper“, it calms me down in a way. Seeing those thoughts in front of me allows me to zoom out and see the big picture. Moreover, I write because writing makes me think things through. And I learn so much thanks to that.

Not everything that makes it onto my blog makes me proud, but I’ve learned that the highs and lows are all me and that it is okay to fall short sometimes. Blogging has taught me that very few things evolve linearly and that’s especially true for us humans. We evolve and regress, and the regressions are all part of the process. If there were no setbacks then we wouldn’t appreciate improvements so much.

All in all, I just like to write and thus, this blog lives on.

  1. A like or repost is very much not deliberate. It doesn’t require much thought and doesn’t indicate how you received it. It’s a quantitative feedback more than anything (good = like vs. bad = no like). ↩︎

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