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August 19, 2008
Insights Blog: Day 1000 - Blog Entry 91
It has been three years now since I began this digital e-rag, and sometimes I'll admit that I regret starting it. I wrote about before, a couple of years ago, about what it means to undertake blogging and exactly what a blog is. Well, I'll tell you what it is...
It's work.
It takes dedication, and passion, and commitment to the cause, and actually believing that one has something worthy to share. Nevermind holding onto the tenuous belief that others think that what one is sharing is worthy of their precious time.
To think that many tens of thousands of people read this writing of mine each month now is staggering. I never would've thought a mere three years ago that anyone would be interested in what I have to say. Nevermind commenting on it, or thinking about it or -- heaven forbid -- actually linking to my site from their similar work of Internet effort. This weblog is something that I never thought would amount to anything worthwhile, or worthy, to anyone.
But, like I wrote a couple of years ago, this is something that has more meaning for me than anyone else. It's a place where I can spill my guts, so to speak, and by throwing caring to the digital wind, let the e-crap fly at times when it comes to the particular type of sharing I'm inspired to relay.
Sometimes the sharing is so obtuse that I wonder if anyone can gather what it is that I'm partaking with my words. And that comment is not made from a posturing position or one of higher knowledge or superiority insomuch as from a particular inability on my part at times to conscisely and easily relay what it is that I'm working so hard to share.
And, other times I know that I drone on about subjects and don't really impart new knowledge to the cause overall yet it is something that allows me to release the veil from my brain and show what is really lurking under the cover of the grey matter upstairs.
There are so many subjects to write about that one really can't even make a blog like this about just one. But I have been shown through the many similar topics that I have written about that I lean towards writing about subjects that I hope will make this a better place after I'm gone then what it was before I came onto the scene.
Sometimes I know that my somewhat esoteric subjects only apply to a very select few people, perhaps to just people in my particular circle of influence, but nevertheless there are embedded lessons that I hope have meaning to others whom I shall never have the pleasure of meeting face to face. Regardless, that doesn't stop me from sharing as I see fit and as I'm inspired to by whatever insight happens to cross behind my forehead.
This blog is a passion for me. It is something I'm realizing that allows me to hang onto the belief that I'm doing something for the good of the cause. Essentially, that what I say matters to at least one reader of my e-words. If so, then it's all worth it.
There is something gratifying about sharing, especially when that sharing can be viewed as helpful, that allows one to believe that they have more substance on this plane then what they heretofore believed.
I know that that's all imaginary, but it is what it is for me nonetheless.
In writing my 1000+ word articles I've found that this blog and even the subject of it, insights, has caused me to have a different perspective through each day. That is, I go through my day, now it's a habit, wherein I wonder if what I'm experiencing at home, at work, with others, or alone, has some tangible lessons in it that others might benefit from, and this has become a way of relating to the world for me.
At times it's really sweet and delightful to view the world as a place of so many lessons that one just has to reach up to the proverbial fruit tree and pick off the branches whatever sweet insight that one chooses to.
But, it's all so sweet after all.
There are so many lessons in life that one can only begin to separate the wheat from the chaff and throw away the dross of life to find what the real meat of life is. At least to that person.
I know that I'm rambling and not really making sense overall but this is just something that has particular meaning to me. Sometimes it's good just to spew forth whatever comes to mind and then see what settles out from that release. Isn't it?
Sometimes it's good to stay awake to the moment and see what it is made up of and how much of one one is imparting to that release and how much of ourselves we can see in the event. Next time we'll see more and therein become more 'complete', if you will.
Life is so inviting and willing to show us everything that we want, if only we'll look the way it is asking us to and speaking to us from. But, so many of us are too too busy with us and our petty existences that we don't want to get up from the dredges of Life and rise up and smell the fresh air above the dirt and the filthy channels we daily trudge forward through.
There is so much sweetness in life that can be gleaned from the smallest experience. I don't have to relay examples here as there are millions to choose from. They are all there, in your life, in your day, in your existence, right now, and they always have been. And they are right in front of you right now as you read these droning-on words of mine.
Yes, even my spewing has meaning to you. It has particular meaning to you that you may not be aware of. And, if you find yourself consciously resonating with what I'm writing, even if it doesn't make a bit of sense to you then my words have participated in a slight awakening of you and your spirit.
And, if so, don't you agree that that is enough reason to go on writing something as insubstantial as a blog called 'insights' from a guy who thinks that his words have little relevance to Life for others, in general?
Written by Andre Best
President, Ultimate Results, Inc.
http://www.andrebest.com
'Learn About Life From Another Perspective'
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Posted by Andre Best at August 19, 2008 10:18 PM
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