A Life Worth Writing

It is so easy to get caught up in the woes of social media. This life we all project. The trips we go on or the fancy cars we are buying. Signaling to the world that we have made it, and you have not. Everyone thinks they have a unique perspective, and to some extent that is true. We all have a take on the world that we should express. Social media has just made it easy to look at someone else’s life and say “I want exactly that”. I want all the things they have, and how can you blame people for that. That’s what it’s programming us to do. You never see behind the mask, you never ask what their other relationships are like. Like the relationship he has with his mom, or the way he treats his girl, or the relationship they have with their parents.

Comparison in the modern age is so easy. If you are bored you just open up your phone, and there it is. All your inadequacies shoved in your face. I have always thought of my writing as a way to gain exposure. This weird vie for attention. And on some level that is what it is. But I have begun to realize that it is my form of self expression. An art, or at least the beginnings of it.

Then I have days where I burn my free time on social media. Wondering why I am not farther ahead or how come I am not published. The truth is that I am not giving it my all. I am sitting here at my local coffee shop on a Sunday, when this piece is due. Writing frantically to get this done because I procrastinated.

There in that short paragraph lies the answer to my problem. The work I avoid. The goals I have for my writing. Commitment is the main issue I have. Just go for it.

Knowing the balance is where I struggle. To have something worth reading you have to live a life worth writing. If you work all the time your life will not be filled with flare or nuance. Understanding the world around you means engaging with the people in the world. Finding the thread that connects everyone. Knowing what makes people, people. That is what I think resonates with people in writing, a hypothesis I need to test.