What Am I Doing?

What am I doing? The pithy, nonresponsive answer is "writing an online journal."

Obviously.

The better question is "Why am I writing an online journal?"

I don't have a pithy response to that.

Answer 1: Practice makes perfect. I don't spend nearly enough time writing, and if I have a goal to work toward, I'll be more likely to make myself sit down and write instead of picking up a book, or playing with the cat, or turning on the TV Food Network and flaking out all evening.

Answer 2: I have a lot of leeway in what I do at work, but frankly, it is neither creative nor self-expressive. I need an outlet for both.

Answer 3: I need the challenge. Can I do this every day? Can I be interesting, even if only to myself? Do I really have anything to say? I need to find out.

I have this very vague memory of a book I read when I was a teenager, and in it, there was a poster that read "Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?". Well, it's time to find out if I dare.

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