To Flow or Not to Flow
I keep promising myself that I'll write more blog posts. Really, I do. Actually intend to write, and even think of stuff to write about. Thing is, when I'm not working, eating, sporting, playing Scrabble and Restaurant City on Facebook or spending time with friends and family, I'm asleep. Yes - really.
Turns out working full-time again is really amazing, however it also means I suddenly have about 50ish hours less a week to just blah and think of crazy stuff to write about. I pretty much always want stuff I write to be profound and meaningful and all "I'm making a statement here"-ish, and when my writing is not like that it tends to be filled with really long sentences, and lots of "so yeah"s and expressions like that. The way this post is - if you know what I mean!
The words don't flow as easily as they used to. Might be 'coz I don't speak English on a daily basis anymore. Might be 'coz I think in Dutch when I'm at work. Might be 'coz I'm busy living a life away from my computer. It just feels stunted when I write. Sure, I could write about my colleagues at work. There are lots of them - that's a definite advantage of working at a huge company. But that feels a bit too personal (for me) and invasive (for them).Could write about a conversation I had with a customer. But then, what if said customer were to stumble onto this blog - I wouldn't want that either. Also - writing about things that happen at work would be really unprofessional, something I don't like either. Could write about my family and friends, but then - same thing really. What if they read this? What if someone they know reads this? So okay, I don't have a gazillion readers. And maybe people only stumble across this blog by accident from time to time. Still... It's out here, on the Net. Available to all. Which brings me back to the question I seem to ask every time I write one of the rambling blog posts that seems to have no real point, no climax, no actual meaning: What to write and what not to write? I'll think about that and get back to you, okay!?
