Whoa... Post number 2,000. Cool.

 I was once quite consistent at this blog thing maybe 15 or so years ago and somehow I let it get behind me. I think of this as the easiest way to communicate through the written word because I type way faster than I write and it allows me to flow a bit better... so it occupies a semi-important role in the productive communication experience in my life. In a way it kind of seems like I get to be a bit more creative. I am not sure that necessarily means it is any higher quality than the rest of the things that I do(journal writing in handwritten form and vlogging) but it is definitely different and so I guess it has a different meaning to me.

I think I started this whole blogging journey sometime around 2002 or so. I asked the question rhetorically to myself(and maybe to the reader) - "Am I a blogger?' and sort of fancied myself a bit of a creative in that way. I've always thought of writing as one of the more noble forms of communication so maybe it seemed like blogging was my own personal way to jump on that bandwagon. It is a thing that basically anyone can do but, for whatever reason, it doesn't seem like many people actually do it these days. Not outside of social media posts, twitter, or whatever is like that.

I think thoughts are important. I think taking the time to express things is also important. I've learned in the many years since I started that there are proven beneficial effects that come along with this kind of habit, and maybe that might've seemed like an obvious thing to me back then, but it's a nice confirmation to hear it does good things and certainly helps to motivate me to do more of it.

So... this is post 2,000. If I compare myself to the more consistent or intense or prolific writers of the world that probably seems like small change but I don't really care. I am not them, nor they me. Maybe I have technically covered the entire gamut of my potential life's topics in one form or another and have even repeated some of them multiple times. None of that matters either. I am a different person every time I address anything because my view is newly informed by every experience prior to it. They all have different meaning to me. All 2,000 of them.