Just Go...

I was chatting a moment ago with my fellow Scholar, and our blog came up. We talked about how we haven't posted in (cough) years, and speculated as to why not. We used to write so much, and fairly often. We wondered if our minds were simply too taxed in other areas - work, schools, etc. - to give us the bandwidth to blog like we used to do. I dismissed this idea quickly; when we started the blog, school and work were just as prominent in our lives as they are now (although we have since reversed roles: I the student; he the worker). Then a thought occurred to me: maybe we needed to go back to the beginning, to when we first started the blog. Originally, we created the blog to give ourselves space simply to write and share what we thought, about any and everything. We had no grand plans for it. We just wrote what was in our heads or on our hearts. Most of the first few posts were a few sentences long. Wisps of thought. Looking back, I believe these unfiltered snippets were like literary kindling, catching fire quickly, growing into blazing flames. We got hot. We got used to going off at a moment's notice, putting pen to paper (or more aptly, finger to key) and leaving the contents of our minds flashing brilliantly across the page in full forest fire fashion. But the desire to produce consistently at such a level became more of a burden than bliss, and our fire slowly burned down, until almost nothing remained. But as a phoenix rises from its own ashes, embers can be coaxed back to life...

I realized we needed to get back to the basics. To simply write, however and whenever the urge hits. To resist the pressure to "go off," and to simply "go..." Sometimes, you can get so caught up in trying to produce at such a high level that you get stalled, worrying more about the results as opposed to the process. The process is what makes the results, not the other way around. Sometimes, you need to stop worrying about doing great things, and just do...something.

This is the rebirth. The beginning. We'll stop trying to go off...and just go. Where will we end up? Well, that's the fun part...

-JMC-