Just write something. Anything.
Sometimes I sit down to write a post, or a journal entry, or anything else and I feel like I don’t really have much to write about at that moment. But when I think about it deeper, I realize the important thing is to just write something. Anything.
In a way, writing is like art. One of the things that makes art beautiful is its uniqueness. When a person paints a picture, that is the first time that exact picture has been painted before. Writing is no different. Whenever you write, assuming you write more than like a dozen words, it is almost guaranteed that nobody has ever written those exact words in that sequence before. This applies whether it’s a fictional story, a report at work, or that English paper you turned in two days late, but the professor is chill, so they didn’t penalize you…the writing is YOURS.
This is a simple thing, and I know I’m blowing it out of proportion. Nothing I am saying here is particularly special or groundbreaking. But I wrote it, so it’s special to me. There may be other posts out there with a similar point, style, and length. But it won’t be the exact same as mine. I created something. Whether it be only for myself or a handful of folks who read it shouldn’t matter to me. Whether other people like it or if they even read this far into the post shouldn’t matter to me. I was given the opportunity to make something today, and I took it.
With algorithms deciding what most people watch, wear, and want, it seems like creative hobbies are one of the only unique things left. If you write just one paragraph, that paragraph is completely unique to you. Write a tiny story, about a kid riding their bike to a park to hang out with friends and get ice cream, about a bird going to different bird feeders in the neighborhood, or about a couple who met at a beach and lived happily ever after.
Write the story. Write the journal entry. Write the blog post. Because if you don’t, then nobody will. If you wait until tomorrow to write it, then the one you would have written today will never be created. Just write something.
Anything.