Logs - may they help with your fire
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May 22, 2023
Learn to fail and you'll improve for a lifetime
I'm lying to others and mostly I'm lying to myself. I hide the limits of my abilities, of what I'm able to produce, I don't want to know - I'm afraid it's not much. I hate to recognize my shortcomings. So I consume, distract myself, waste time, keep the status quo. No more, hopefully.
I'll try to set down some words and risk sounding stupid. To produce, even at low quality, is better than whatever I was doing until now. I read quite a lot and even though I'm not sure I have good taste in writing I expect to improve if I do it enough. From the first sentence now I've been thinking how may "I"s I can afford in such a short amount of words. It's all I I I, or so it seems.
I write primarily for myself. As I said, to practice writing, but also to get stuff out of my head and to do something, anything, that isn't a distraction. I've checked my browser several times since I started this session. Two times to check synonyms for words, otherwise just to avoid doing this.
I can feel it already. The feeling of having accomplished something. This is paying off already, I'm glad I started. If this thing, blog, garden can benefit someone else in any way, well that just the cherry on top.