I'm not sure if this is the start of anything particularly great or unique, but it's a start. I have no aspirations to write professionally or even coherently, but I do know that it's cathartic (I should look that word up sometime) and I've become aware that I feel better after I've put electronic pen to electronic paper and released the inner monologue. Finding Forrester is a favorite movie of mine, and during one of the initial exchanges between Sean Connery's Forrester and Rob Brown's character Jamaal he (Forrester) opines that the key to becoming a writer is TO WRITE.
Seems like there must be something to that nugget of wisdom that could carry over to any other endeavor. You want to be a golfer? Buy some clubs and start swinging. Want to make a million dollars? Start working. Micheal Jordan once said that you miss 100% of the shots you don't take. I imagine there are more people who get to the end of their lives wishing they had done more, not less.
I haven't owned a computer in 5+ yrs, just didn't need it. But I recently sat down to one, and pumped out 2 pages of nothing much before I realized what was going on. Some people play music, others work out or cook. I'm happy to know that I've found an outlet. And that's really all it is, just a way of organizing and expressing what's going on inside.
I'll write about movies, politics, sport, religion, parenting, current events - whatever's boiling inside the 'ol cranium. It might be serious, funny, sarcastic, or a combination but it'll be what it is .... my stream of consciousness.
