What to write, oh what to write? This is the question that has been going over and over and over in my head. Now the problem with starting a blog is that you actually have to put stuff on a blog and the problem with that is well you need to think of some stuff, some interesting stuff that you want to write about. Honestly, I don’t always know what I would write about. I find myself getting stuck in a thought process that if there is anything that I would write about I would not actually be the most knowledgeable person on the topic. If let’s say I were to write about the meaning of life there would most probably be over a hundred books, blogs, videos and whatever else people use to share information, that I could recommend. Now if I’m being honest with myself I am not the next best writer, English, which is my first language, was not even my strongest subject in school. My grammar is most likely not always the greatest thing nor is my selection of words. Someone recently told me once that as they wrote their essays that they would make sure not to use the same word too many times, for example, if they had used “and” in the sentence they would make sure not to use it in the same sentence again or try to use it very little in the paragraph. When I compared their thought process to my own I had to admit that I did not put all that much thought into my writing, I would just write what I wanted to write about in the structure that I wanted to use, even if it could come across as grammatically incorrect.

Now I must return to my question which I had stated previously about what to write and why even write if there are already so many excellent writers out there. I find this can be the same question that can come up when you do anything really, I try my hand at photography and videography every so often and I have to admit that even in that I am not the greatest, and it’s not always for lack of trying. Sometimes when I’m going about taking my pictures I ask myself, “Why am I even doing this? It’s not like I’m going to become someone great from this, it is just a random hobby after all”. This is a question I ask myself with many things that I do, I think to myself on many occasions that I am not the greatest at this nor do I strive to be yet I still find myself doing these assortments of things. I think that this can be the case with all people, this is not to say that we do not all have something we would like to be the greatest at or something which we may already be the greatest at. For example, I know a woman who is an amazing graphic designer, much better than I could ever be, and she is really passionate about it, yet she has many other hobbies that she does, I sometimes like to call her a serial hobbyist, with all these other hobbies that she does she seems to find a level of joy in each one, yes she battles along with them yet she still dedicates herself to them and that I find admirable. I also have a brother who is an amazing singer yet he too has something that he does which is not what he is best at, he games on occasion and though he is not bad at it he does not aspire to be the greatest but rather just takes joy from it. From people like my brother and my friend, I find that I get the answer that I was looking for.

It is not about me being the greatest writer or being the one with the foremost knowledge of a particular topic. What matters is that I have something that I have that I just want to do and I want to share with others. I occasionally enjoy writing and there are certain things I have an opinion on, things that I know a bit about, things I want to share with others and well I find that I need to stop caring about how well I am going to do with all this writing and actually just do it. Now the problem I need to overcome is not a matter of what to write but rather more of a matter of just writing and posting because that is something I wish to do. I may never be the greatest writer, and I may never have the best knowledge on the topics that I may write about, take that as you may but I hope to still write and share my small craft with others.