I am back, and still have no idea what I am doing

Published 2025-07-21

tag(s): #blogging #meta

I was on vacation for a week. Which was refreshing, and exactly what me and the fam needed after a non-stop roller-coaster of happenings between August 2023 and last week.
We were on a cruise, with very limited internet access. We made a conscious choice not to buy any internet access package, which was an interesting experience.

Now, as I mentioned a couple times before[1], I feel like I have outlet for thoughts that before were just gone.
Many times I had some idea in passing, but now if that idea lingers for a bit more, instead of just letting it go, I figure that maybe it is a good topic for a post.
That starts a process where the idea comes and goes a few times, and then some "stream of text" about it makes it onto this site.

Last week, since I was experiencing so many things for the first time, I put a lot of little observations in an (offline) note, as topics to write about when I was back.

Well, during this morning's commute, I looked at the list and everything on it seemed like garbage. 🤣
Just stupid "ideas", uninspired observations, or little snippets where I didn't even know what I meant with the note.

I had this site long enough to know that stuff that seems like a amorphous and unpublishable thought at first, might take shape into something more coherent later[2]. I am giving last week's Hoagie the benefit of doubt, and won't delete all the notes. Yet.

So while I celebrate that I feel I have a safe space for whatever I have to say, I have to also recognize that I still don't have a clue what makes the blog, and by extension my own head, tick a certain way where something makes sense.
Or at least I think it makes sense enough that I push it online.
(I rarely, if ever, revisit what I wrote other than to correct mistakes. That's one way to not have regrets about "bad" content).

I am not a fan of the "blogging about blogging" thing, but I had an irresistible urge to write and this is what was in my head the last 10 minutes. That "I don't know how to blog".
So here we are.

Footnotes
  1. Usually I would link to other post(s) here, but I honestly can't remember when and where I mentioned this :) I just know I did.
  2. Whether something is publishable or not is not a requirement in this blog.
    And if we are being very honest, coherence is valued but not required =P

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