WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THAT.
I don’t jive with the climate of blogging right now. When marketing moved in, I moved out. There’s been a shift in perception with the influx of money; smaller blogs get lost in the shuffle, and it’s a chorus of similar voices. What I loved about blogging was finding those marginal voices, connecting with people over this weird nerdy habit, pushing myself to be a better writer because so many others were already great. I don’t see a lot of that now – I don’t see writers writing for writing’s sake. That’s been replaced by twenty people talking about their awesome experience with Brand X paper towels because a company gave them a few bucks to do so. I tend towards the personal, the political and the analytical. Writing on my blog started to feel like screaming into a void, so I stopped. I have all of the archives saved on my external hard drive, but I can’t imagine I will make them public ever again.
“Words have the power to form our experience and thus our reality. The more unnecessary apologies we make, the more we unwittingly convince ourselves that we are at fault for everything — even a vicious crime in which we were the terrified victim.
We are a generation that arrived pre-empowered thanks to the work of our moms and grandmothers and great-grandmothers. We’re smart, we’re ambitious, we’re hardworking, we’re determined, we’re badass, we’re brilliant — and we’re still so very, very sorry.
I wonder when we’ll stop apologizing for existing.”
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space | Fly Over | Nasa, ISS (by Michael König)
