First things first

This blog is essentially a conversation with myself. Ironically, I've gone and invited the internet to listen, but really this is a fairly egotistical exercise with the intention of improving my way of expressing myself to other people. It's 3 in the morning, and I'll explain my motivation for starting a blog.

I love experience. Just doing stuff, listening to stuff other people did. What's more, the thoughts and considerations that come from those experiences are as important to me as the experiences themselves. The amount of time we spend on this planet is brief. The amount of time we spend caring about how that time's spent is dismal. So, my solution to being a fart in the wind; get good at sharing and encouraging others to share. Y'know how vivid reading a good book can be, you feel you understand the characters, can imagine the places it's set, find yourself longing to be there and interact with the created world? I think being able to put thoughts into coherent, logical expression is crucial to being able to communicate, and by extension, be able to fully consider and react to an experience you've never actually had. What I've noticed is, unfortunately, having the patience to think something through is getting harder and harder. Currently, I think the culprit is the way we're learning to digest information, particularly digital information. Our culture is sliding rapidly to valuing immediacy before process. The internet doesn't require an attention span, we're not encouraged to linger or ponder. More frustratingly, I've noticed this attitude in myself. Feeling that I bore people if I'm not succinct enough, not being able to explain myself logically, rapidly moving to different topics because I've forgotten how I started the dialogue. What I really hope to achieve with blogging my thoughts and ponderings is an improved ability to share snippets of my perspective of the world and hopefully to encourage others to share theirs with me.