Do something!

This was my 2010 New Year’s resolution - to start writing a blog in order to remember how my life was when I look back at it years from now. There are so many things going on in it that I often could barely catch my breath. I do enjoy it, but can’t remember everything in detail when days go by so quickly and so lively. And I love details! 

I am also a perfectionist. Especially when it comes to writing. The theme, word choice, grammar - everything has to be perfect before anybody else could see it. Reading other people’s blogs full of deep thoughts and thought-provoking reflections, beautiful metaphors and vivid illustrations made me doubt the worth and value of my own creativity. Is it really worth putting it all up for everybody to read? 

Amazingly, I am not that strict with myself in the gym which was another 2010 New Year’s resolution of mine - to start working out regularly. My gym motto is “Do something!” [as opposed to nothing]. This probably drives my trainer nuts. Because for him if I do something somehow, and not how I am supposed to do it - at the right angle, in the right posture, the right number of repetitions, etc. - the result will be different. Even though I don’t pay him to make sure I do it all properly, he still cares enough about his job as a trainer, that he would come to me from time to time to show me how to do things correctly, bless his heart.  

Well, this was my metaphor for blog writing. I think both my trainer and I are right when it comes to practicing and improving. I will start with something. I will write at my own pace, using my own choice of topics to cover and issues to wrestle with. And maybe with time, and the right number of repetitions, I will produce something that will bring an even more amazing result.