I'm still alive.

I mean, I'm alive but not sure how much I really have to write about. I think anything can become fascinating if seen in with the right perspective, and to be honest I've been doing a lot in my life, so it's not strictly true that I have nothing to say. To be more honest, there's nothing I want to write about. Maybe the idea I have in my head about what I should be writing does not line up with my lived experience, that I would want to live a life that warrants a blog and that the blog would interest anyone at all.

I'm reminded of times when I would see people I haven't talked to in months and when we start talking, they'll humbly admit to having a boring life with nothing of note to report, yet once you ask a few pointed questions they reveal this whole secret world they live in and with the right questions you have a chance to look into it. It's all about perspective.

I read a blog post recently, Why I Don't Have A Blog, where someone talks about not having a blog, on their blog. A lot of the points resonated with me. Like the writer of the blog post I feel like most of my opinions are amalgamations made up of Reddit posts and New York Times articles and don't feel much of a need to advertise them. I have a few stronger opinions, namely that people should begin to take the use technology into their own hands and fight the business trends that drive the growth of monolithic technology companies, but who hasn't heard that opinion before? And who am I to advocate for it? Just one more voice in the choir.

Another part of me also like to keep things secret. I don't really like advertising the stuff I'm into to the whole world anyway. If anything, this is an open journal just to prove to myself that I'm alive, I'm thinking and I'm doing stuff.

I made a New Year's resolution that I'd write more bash scripts. That has gone nowhere. I've tweaked a few scripts but nothing totally new yet. Maybe that's something I could get started with and then I'd finally have something cool to write about. Or whatever. Maybe I could write a bash script that could write these blog posts. :D