Update to what I'm doing here:

I first wrote an intro to this on June 1st, when I first started posting content and before I had told anyone I was doing it. I'll leave that one below for reference.

But "What I'm doing" has changed a bit since then, so this is my second draft:

I'm here for a few reasons.

I touched on one initially. I said it seemed like a waste to let things float around in my head without writing them down. That part hasn't changed, but it has evolved.

I think there's huge value in creation. I believe it's the meaning of life—it's the goal of god/the universe/whatever: make new stuff, do new things. I see it like this: the universe itself is this insane four(plus?)-dimensional work of art that is somehow painting new content on itself every day. And I'm one of its brushes. And if I just let my own special paint dry out without adding it to the canvas, I'm wasting the paint.

So, I invested $20/year in this little canvas of my own to give myself an outlet for whatever random things float into my head. Now at least it exists as part of this giant universal-collage.

The second reason (which I can leverage the same metaphor to articulate) is that by not putting down the ideas that float around in my head—by not using the paint—they end up festering.

Weird, negative thoughts gain more weight. Things I'm trying to mull over confuse the shit out of me.

So now I'm trying to write more of them down—trying to use more of the paint—simply in an effort to get some of them out of my head and onto the page where I can start to make sense of them. While I do hope I'm creating some form of art, I also need this as an outlet for my own sanity's sake.

With all that said: what can you expect from this? I have no idea. I have some short stories floating around up here, some poems, some philosophies, some personal confessional things. I'm just going to put them down and sort them out later.

Enjoy!

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(V1; Posted June 1, 2019)

I kept telling myself I wanted to write more. So I bought a domain in hopes that the $20 annual fee will be enough motivation.

What a terrible waste that $20 would be if I never posted anything, right?

So now I have a blog which I intend to populate with random things I think up.

Maybe they'll be stories—or arguments with myself; maybe they'll be akin to diary entries—or half-baked philosophies.

The idea is just to give some life to random things I think up, since at present they just float around in my head for a bit, then they disappear as if they never existed. And that seems like a waste.

Maybe there was potential there, and I killed it out because I was too lazy or too scared. It's like—disrespectful to "the muse" or something.

So on top of getting my money's worth from the domain purchase, this is me "honouring the muse."

Of course, I really have no clue what I'm doing, but let's see where this goes.