I frequently read articles and blog posts on the internet, and I often find myself intimidated. I am floored by the writing quality and poignant insights, and I compare them to what I write here. It makes me want to labor intensively over every single post so that I can capture my exact thoughts and make every sentence flow together seamlessly; or it makes me want to just quit because I know I can never compete with the other writers.
But then I remember that I am not writing these posts for other people. I am writing for myself. My blog is an exercise for me to find ways to express my thoughts, and to give myself validity to my insights.
I also think that my stream-of-consciousness, imperfectly-organized, shaky-logic posts would lose some of their authenticity and organicity (probably not a real word, but there is no noun form of "organic") if I were to spend hours over each post. Ain't nobody got time for that!
Besides, I'm not a writer. I'm an engineer. I simply don't have the gift for writing that others do. And that's okay.
So, what does it matter how my posts turn out? My thoughts on an issue are not less valid because they are less eloquent than someone else's thoughts on the issue.
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