It has been a while since the last time I published something on this blog. In fact, it’s been almost three months, so it is hard to call it just a summer break anymore (which in deed it was in July and August).
I have been thinking about it, though, and meaning to post something for a couple of weeks now, but somehow never really got round to it. Clearly, I have no obligation to write so it should be OK to leave it until it feels fun again, but I started wondering why I have ended up postponing this.
Is it just that going back to weekly routines after the holidays is always difficult and the first weeks often less productive?
Or could it be that I have now, after 46 blog entries (it doesn’t sound that many, but it has taken me seven months to write them), reached a crisis moment? You know, something similar to the seven-year itch in relationships and the culture shock one gets after a couple of months in a foreign country? Or the moment in a new start-up when you realise after all the excitement that it is actually hard work, even slightly boring at times.
Is there a block that every blog artist reaches after 46 entries?
For the blogger, this is the time to wonder what the point of the blog is. Contemplate a moment what makes one write when only a few good friends and relatives read the pieces, what drives the work when the early enthusiasm is gone. What do you get? Is it worth it?
Would I be better off not writing? I guess not. Having the blog has been fun and it clarifies my thinking. The blog keeps me alert and observing my surroundings as I try to find things to note down. It also serves as a nice material archive for business presentations. So I definitely want to go on.
What do you do then, when it is tough to find the motivation to write the next entry, when the local people around you all act strange and don’t seem to understand it, when a new job in that great start-up feels dull for the first time?
You just keep going. Left, right, left, right, one more, one more, and now together, keep on trying, keep on trying...
There you go. 47.
This is funny - I just found myself thinking about your blog this morning for some reason. I wondered whether you'd stopped writing altogether or just paused for a while.
Glad to see you're back.
Posted by: Jaakko | September 14, 2012 at 11:15