I need to write more

Writing more, finding my forever job and Albert Camus
Jul 8, 2024
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I need to write more:


I need to write more.

I feel like I’m not doing enough.

Not writing enough.

Not getting enough of my thoughts on paper.

This is from a guy who is on day 2107 of his journal.

And is ten or so blog posts away from publishing 1000 in 3.5 years.

I feel like I need to write more.

Why I am sharing this?

To explain how I think.

To explain how I operate.

To explain why I am the way I am.

Even those you see are the most successful, they’re plagued by this inability to sit still and be comfortable with what they’ve done.

They have to keep going.

They just have to.

Kobe was like that.

Jordan was like that.

Brady was like that.

Lebron is like that.

You can’t stop.

I can’t stop.

I will write till the day I die.

That is a promise.

Whether anyone reads my stuff or not is not up to me.

I cannot control that.

I cannot control if anyone likes what I write.

I cannot control if any of my words will have impact.

I cannot control how people perceive my words.

That is not up to me.

I can control my effort.

I can control my time.

I can control my writing.

Most of these are ramblings.

Ideas that don’t flow.

Words taken out of context.

Subjects combined that shouldn’t be.

Yet I don’t care.

This makes me happy.

This keeps me sane.

This gives me an outlet I will never let go.

That’s what writing should be for you.

An outlet.

A way to get words out of your mind.

Whether they’re good or not.

Whether anyone will read them or not.

It’s not in the writing for others that you get fulfillment.

But it’s in the writing for yourself.

It’s in the understanding of your thinking.

Of your mind.

Of the ideas that you can’t seem to explain.

That’s the point of writing.

Maybe one day people will care what I have to say.

Maybe they won’t.

All I know is I will never stop.

I’m approaching my thousandth post in 3.5 years.

1000 blog posts is mind-boggling to me.

My goal in 2021 was 100.

Now I sit here a few years later with much more than that and a confirmation of what I will do forever.

I’m never going to stop.

Whether you like it or not.

I’ve done so much and yet it feels so little.

Thought of this when I read that Albert Camus wrote 900 love letters to one of his lovers over a decade on top of all the other writing he did.

I don’t even feel close to that.

So it’s time to keep going.

I need to write more.

'Keep Going You're Doing Great'

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