Back in college, I had to take a course, "History of Psychology" as part of my academic requirements (and in order to be considered for graduation). I thought "Oh no. It's going to be one long boring semester or memorizing dates and names and everything else".
The professor - and God bless her but I cannot remember her name - I am sure was perceptive enough to have realized this preconception and bias amongst her students and tried very hard to make it interesting. She wasn't very successful - but oh well. That's another story.
I did find it interesting however. And one of the things that I really did like was the discussion about Descartes' "Cogito Ergo Sum" and an opposing view (whose was it, I cannot remember now). It was a discussion about "which came first - being or doing?"
"Cogito Ergo Sum" says "I think therefore I am". Others say "I am therefore I think". I am sure there are more dimensions to the story. But these are the two that stuck in my mind.
And I will take that position and apply that into something I like doing - which is writing, and well, blogging.
I am - therefore I blog.
And that pretty much sums up everything that I believe in about writing.
Seth Godin has this to say about blogging: Show up. Not writing is not a useful way of expressing your ideas. Waiting for perfect is a lousy strategy.
How apt, I felt. I blog because I want to show up. I write because I want to show up. And there may be grammatical errors and spelling errors and reasoning errors - but heck, I am not aiming for perfection, I am aiming to simply write.
And I write because, well, I am.
How about you?
