Drip, drip, drip, a habit

 I read this on Seth’s blog, and it has since stuck with me.

To overcome an irrational fear…replace it with a habit. If you’re afraid to write, write a little, every day. Start with an anonymous blog, start with a sentence. Every day, drip, drip, drip, a habit.

I published tiny notes on Lettrs for years until I moved to the Notes app on my phone. My randomness and short patience would only allow for a few lines of legible musings. Nevertheless, writing — like reading — fascinates me. I admire the works of people like Ava, Nikita Gil and Erin Hanson, who always seem to know the right words and metaphors to use in their written art. Because for the love of me, I cannot sit still and pen down my thoughts, as colorful and detailed as I’d like them to be. My thoughts are like splatters of paint on an already busy canvas, random and evanescent like lightnings in the sky.

So, after reading Seth’s piece, I made a mental note on how I am going to really, really start writing. In bits and pieces, about a minute or less (or more) long, I will write about stuff. Random thoughts about random things. How I perceive the world, the little and big challenges I get to face on the daily, the eclectic nature of it all. Some would be personal, some technical, some *hopefully* rational, some just plain questioning and rants. Each in itself is a piece in my puzzle, a story, an entry in a series of whatevers in my little corner of the internet.

Other things I’ll drip, drip, drip my way into doing consistently:

• Saving — it sucks to be non-rich
• Reading — I am officially ashamed of my goodreads stats. So not me.
• Decisiveness — I’m starting to make conscious efforts to make definitive choices.

Here’s to new new beginnings! 🥂