A Little Burst of Honesty
As a writer, particularly a lazy writer I find that at times I have lulls of writing and I never know quite what to say when I come back. For the past few days I have been thinking about what I could possibly write about on this blog as a sort of welcome back, or I’m not dead yet. What I came up with is just some honesty about myself and this blog.
When I decided I was going to start a blog I first started with barakwontserve.com, which at the time was my online handle; the barak wont serve part not the .com. Contrary to what most people think the name had nothing to do with our current president, in fact I voted for him and while I consider myself a Liberal Socialist or Progressive (which ever leaves a better taste in your mouth I suppose) I don’t feel he has done enough as a president; I still like the guy though. At any rate, the blog started as just a way to keep thoughts flowing because I was tired of using LiveJournal and yes my LiveJournal still exists if you want to find it, but I must warn you it is pretty angsty and poorly written (like you don’t get enough of that here). So I started the blog mainly because at the time I was playing in a lot of bands and still had this crazy idea that I was gonna get signed to a record label and someone might give a shit about my daily going ons. As I have gotten older I have realized that being in a band is hard, it’s not as glamourous as people like to believe; The whole rock star thing fell through, but who knows I’m not even 27 yet so maybe there is still time. In retrospect the whole blog was a pretty self centered thing to do, but I am only human so it is what it is.
As time goes on the blog has changed a bit from being a whats going on in my life to a random shit I see and choose to write about project. I thought if I could wake up everyday and write 1 entry then I would be setting my self up with positive writing habits and possibly make something of myself. That lasted a month or so and even then it is a little bit iffy. I also run another blog with my brother and some friends, we write about video games there which you have probably noticed from the video game stuff on this blog that I am a gamer. In the beginning of this post I said I was a lazy writer, perhaps I was being too kind, I am flat out lazy. Other blogs I write for I slacked off and well haven’t been too prolific.
So I would like to say that is all changing with this post. This post right here is me turning my life around and making a commitment to completing tasks, but come on we both know that is bullshit. I will try to do my best and come up with interesting things for you to read and update as often as I realistically see fit. I think it is okay to not post every day even though I may want to; Just so you know I have been thinking about this post for 2 weeks. I wanted to write, err, say all the right things so that you might find it in your heart to take me back, or keep reading this, by the way if you are still reading this congrats, you have way more conviction than I do.
I hope this little burst of honesty will be appreciated and perhaps I will write more about my life, I have a lot to pull from. Thanks for reading this and still checking out the blog.
-Mikey
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