Getting Started

Sitting down to write is hard!

I have started a blog an uncountable number of times in my life. This is obviously not possible in the finite span of it, but it is metaphorically correct because I am sure that some of these false starts I cannot even remember. As I finish writing the previous sentence, I admit I procrastinated for several days

While the most difficult part of bringing an idea, or wish into existence is definitely getting started, the second most difficult thing is to stop meandering around on how to get started. Which tool to use, which color, which machine, language, type of paper… I know that I can fixate on the wrong variable long enough so that the impetus of starting stops.

Every so often, aware of the aforementioned meandering, thought goes straight into execution… Reaching quickly a point when I am clearly half way through project, and all the steps until that point where clear, but the next ones. Ah, the naivety of the eternal dilettante brought me again to an idea that I will not complete.

Whats the point of writing this? This is in no way a form of public commitment, but it is - since you are reading - a public recognition of my nature, my human nature. If this does not happen to you, I want to know all about it!

I just want to say that it is OK to start, and stop… It is OK to meander; it is OK to stop in cluelessness. All of it is a perfect beginning, all these ways are a perfect attempt. It would be worse to just sit idling, letting time pass by, without taking a chance to bring what is inside, out.

This was me trying. And this is where I stopped. This is a first attempt, and maybe not the last…

After all, banging the keyboard to make sense can probably become easier with practice.